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Robo Prize a claimed PRIZE VALUE of Millions of Dollars. The idea of offering prize-money to help advance technology is not new. Throughout history, prize money has motivated people to achieve great things. Lindbergh would not have been the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic if it wasn't for the prize money. In fact, that was said to be one of his main motivating factor!

Domestic robot        An open source robot is bidding to become the standard research model .

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Wyrobek hopes that PR2 will do the same for "mobile manipulation". Each of the robot's two arms can lift up to 1.8 kilograms each, and it has two cameras and a 3D laser scanner to help it picture the world around it and identify objects.

Wyrobek hopes that PR2 will do the same for "mobile manipulation". Each of the robot's two arms can lift up to 1.8 kilograms each, and it has two cameras and a 3D laser scanner to help it picture the world around it and identify objects

Ability to use Aps, applications that may be downloaded and shared

Japanese department store offers robots that look like their buyers    
Robot that looks like you   We all knew this day would come and we all knew this would happen first in Japan. And local department store chain operator Sogo & Seibu is ready to make it possible: You can soon buy robots who look exactly like you. Right, life-size humanoids.

The company isn't that sure about its idea though as it plans to offer just two robots for the time being. Sogo & Seibu says they'll start accepting orders in all of their department stores in Japan as soon as early next month. But if there are three or more people interested in getting a robotic doppelgnger, buyers will be chosen by lot.

The Honda Asimo

Now knows how to navigate around people in work areas, a seemingly simple, yet complex task. It can also share and coordinate tasks with other Asimos and dock itself at the recharge station as needed. These abilities enable the Asimo to be more autonomous in a workplace and bring it one step closer to replacing actual humans.

Honda developed an intelligence technology that enhances smooth movement by enabling ASIMO to choose between stepping back and yielding the right-of-way or continuing to walk based on the predicted movement of oncoming people. Honda also developed a new intelligence technology related to ASIMO's ability to perform tasks such as carrying a tray and pushing a cart. Furthermore, a new comprehensive system was developed so that multiple ASIMOs can share tasks by adjusting to the situation and work together in coordination to provide uninterrupted service. For example, if one ASIMO is idled while recharging, other ASIMO robots will step in and perform assigned tasks.ASIMO identifies oncoming people through its eye camera, calculates traveling direction and speed, predicts forthcoming movements of oncoming people, and chooses the most appropriate path so that it will not block the movement of others. When there is not enough space, ASIMO will step back and yield the right-of-way. (newlaunches)

New ASIMO Robot abilities Dec 2007 release

Japan Unveils Mind Control Robot    
 

Iin Japan scientists at the Honda Research Institute have unveiled the world's first brain to machine interface.

Dubbed BMI short for Brain Machine Interface this new technology system will enable people to control robots using their mind.

Pushing buttons and fiddling with levers to control a robot could be a thing of the past. Honda's new system works using a brain activity measuring device that sends signals to their famous ASIMO humanoid robot.

As a user imagines moving a body part, sensors placed on the head measure and analyze the slight waves and blood flow changes in the brain. This allows the robot to make corresponding movements such as raising its arm or leg.

Honda hopes to incorporate the technology into a variety of human-friendly products in the future.


Fembot Aiko getting poked at Ontario Science Center Roboter Insect

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Google X-Prize by building lunar missions complete with robotic rovers capable of roaming the surface of the moon for at least 500 meters and sending video, images and other data back to Earth, according to a statement from the X Prize Foundation.  Google Lunar X Prize

ROS is an open-source, meta-operating system for your robot. It provides the services you would expect from an operating system, including hardware abstraction, low-level device control, implementation of commonly-used functionality, message-passing between processes, and package management. Robots Using ROS series  for articles on the variety of ways that ROS has been used with robots.

First Objective For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology

FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is a unique varsity sport of the mind designed to help high-school-aged young people discover how interesting and rewarding the life of engineers and researchers can be.

Ultra-realistic bionic bird    
 

A Robot look like a bird, flys like a bird and eats flies,

A robot modelled on the herring gull sets a new standard for realistic flying machines.

Actually an energy-efficient robot, weighing just 500 grams, that captures the elegance of a bird in flight.

The robot, aptly named "SmartBird".

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A robot that flies like a bird    
 

Plenty of robots can fly -- but none can fly like a real bird. That is, until Markus Fischer and his team at Festo built SmartBird, a large, lightweight robot, modeled on a seagull, that flies by flapping its wings. A soaring demo fresh from TEDGlobal 2011.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED

Festo - SmartBird    
 

Aerodynamic SmartBird flight model - Bird flight

SmartBird is an ultralight but powerful flight model with excellent aerodynamic qualities and extreme agility. With SmartBird, Festo has succeeded in deciphering the flight of birds - one of the oldest dreams of humankind.

This bionic technology-bearer, which is inspired by the herring gull, can start, fly and land autonomously -- with no additional drive mechanism. Its wings not only beat up and down, but also twist at specific angles.

This is made possible by an active articulated torsional drive unit, which in combination with a complex control system attains an unprecedented level of efficiency in flight operation.

Festo has thus succeeded for the first time in creating an energy-efficient technical adaptation of this model from nature.

Phone controlled bipedal walking robot with multi-touch gestures        
 
Yuta Sugiura and his colleagues at the Graduate School of Media Design, Keio University, have developed a new control scheme for robots and virtual characters called Walky for the iPhone. Rather than using a cumbersome game controller or keyboard, which may pose a problem for novice users, they can use Walky to control walking, turning, jumping, kicking, and other actions through simple finger gestures on the iPhone's touch screen.

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Spider Pill Robot crawls through the body.

The BBC is reporting on a wirelessly controlled "spider pill" being developed somewhere in Italy. The device supposedly has eight legs and reportedly can crawl through intestines. With an attached video camera, the device might actually become a diagnostic modality for imaging the intestinal tract. The big question is whether it is more unpleasant to have a colonoscope defile you or a robotic gerbil crawl through the insides.

ButlerBot serves cans from RoboFridge   Norris Labs Steve Norris, Boston, MA, wrote in with his latest project: a robot that'll bring you a beer. The Beverage Delivery System (BDS) is an ambitious project of mine to create a fully automated inter-home delivery system. Anyone who has built a robot has, at one point or another, been asked the question "but can it bring me a beer?"; I'm sure that like me, roboticists all over the world have grown weary of this question. The Beverage Delivery System is the answer to this age old problem, a problem that has plagued mankind since the invention of the canned beverage.

Baxter is the transport component of my Beverage Delivery System (BDS). Supporting Baxter is a fixed location dispenser robot called RoboFridge. You can think of a RoboFridge as a kind of soda vending machine that does not require money. Like a real vending machine RoboFridge supports the dispensing of canned beverages. The concept of the BDS could even be extended to non-food items like medications, DVDs and books.

The BDS process starts when a user requests an item using a simple remote control. Baxter is activated from his sleep mode and navigates to RoboFridge using a variety of navigation techniques. These include dead reckoning using encoders, IR beacons, and line following.

Once he arrives Baxter will initiate a docking sequence with RoboFridge. After docking, RoboFridge deposits the canned beverage into Baxter's cargo area. Baxter then undocks and navigates back to the thirsty user to deliver the beverage.

Finally I can get a frosty cold beverage delivered to me in my favorite easy chair without any effort or argument!

Issac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics are a set of three rules written by Isaac Asimov, which almost all positronic robots appearing in his fiction must obey. Introduced in his 1942 short story "Runaround", although foreshadowed in a few earlier stories, the Laws state the following :-

  1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
  2. A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
  3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

A Robot Bill of Rights. (Ethical code for robots in works).

Ethics for the Robot Age - Should bots carry weapons? Should they win patents? Questions we must answer as automation advances. View by Jordan Pollack. Wired Magazine (January 2005; Issue 13.01). "My definition of a robot is any device controlled by software that can work 24/7 and put people out of work. The machines are not intelligent. ... In case you missed them, today's most popular robots are ATMs and computer printers. While our hopes for and fears of robots may be overblown, there is plenty to worry about as automation progresses. The future will have many more robots, and they'll most certainly be much more advanced. This raises important ethical questions that we must begin to confront. 1. Should robots be humanoid? ... 2. Should humans become robots? ... 4. Should robots eat? ... 6. Should robots carry weapons? ..."

A new set of laws has been proposed to govern operations by killer robots. (PDF format), The ideas were floated by John S Canning, an engineer at the Naval Surface Warfare Centre, Dahlgren Division an American weapons-research and test establishment. Mr Canning's Concept of Operations for Armed Autonomous Systems .

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Swarming Nano Quadrotors from GRASP Lab
Thu, 2 Feb 2012 16:57:39 GMT -

Using hardware developed by KMel Robotics, Alex Kushleyev and Daniel Mellinger, of UPenn's GRASP Lab, working under the direction of Professor Vijay Kumar, and with assistance from Associate Professor Daniel Lee, have demonstrated coordinated flight of as many as twenty nano quadrotors.

David Anderson on Subsumption-based Robots
Wed, 1 Feb 2012 19:43:46 GMT -

David Anderson, a long time member of the Dallas Personal Robotics Group, did an interesting presentation recently in which he distills down what he's learned about building subsumption based mobile robots over the years. The video is a bit long but well-worth your time if you're interested in intelligent robots. David provides some additional notes that link to video of specific examples. And don't forget to check out David's "my robots" webpage for more photos and details on his robots.

Political Pundits Discover the Uncanny Valley
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:59:22 GMT -

The Uncanny Valley has been called upon to explain why Mitt Romney's persona disturbs so many people despite general agreement that he's a "successful, good-looking family man". Like Democrat Al Gore in previous races, Republican Mitt Romney creates a strange unease even among his supporters. A recent essay in the Atlantic provides an explanation for this phenomenon based on the Uncanny Valley theory that we are repulsed by slight imperfections in human-like action. The author argues that Romney's personality exhibits traits which put him into an "uncanny valley" for politicians.

"Most politicians tend to be ordinary-looking people who spend their time convincing voters they're office-quality material. Romney is rushing the other way: he's the politician from central casting who is stumbling through an audition for a role of regular human."

There were lots of jokes and comments about Al Gore being a "robot" in earlier races. But here we've got a more detailed attempt at explaining what makes people uncomfortable about this type of politician. This raises interesting questions: 1) is this just an amusing analogy or could there be any real psychology behind claims of a political uncanny valley? 2) does a reference to the uncanny valley by a political pundit mean even relatively obscure robotics and AI science is going mainstream? 3) if even some humans fall into the uncanny valley, is it more important that robots climb the other side or that we adjust our expectations of intelligent behavior?
Diagram based on Mori Uncanny Valley

Robots Podcast: Advances in Bipedal Locomotion
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:31:56 GMT -






In the new episode of Robots Podcast we talk to Subramanian Ramamoorthy from the University of Edinburgh about the recent progress in walking robotics. We then speak with Felipe Brandão Cavalcanti, an Electrical Engineering student working on bipedal walking at the LARA lab at the University of Brasilia with Professor Geovany Borges. Ramamoorthy tells us about the recent advances in humanoid bipedal walking illustrated by Petman and the latest version of Asimo. In particular, we look at the history of the field with work from Mark Raibert, Russ Tedrake andDaniel Koditschek and how different areas, such as machine leaning and motion capture, come together to accelerate progress. Felipe Brandão Cavalcanti's project focuses on the study and implementation of gait generation and stabilization algorithms for small humanoid robots. He tells us how they hacked a humanoid toy to improve its balance and the importance of math in his work.To learn more about walking robotics read on or tune in!

"My robot is better than your robot."
Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:33:55 GMT -

Inspriational video from iamFIRST.com.
(Via Nikolaus Correll)

SVT's Akta Manniskor begins Sunday, Jan. 22
Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:20:25 GMT -

While this won't matter to most readers of Robots.Net until a version with English subtitles becomes available for download, SVT's Akta Manniskor starts tomorrow, January 22nd. A ten hour series following the stories of a handful of "hubots" - human-like robots we might prefer to call androids - and the humans into whose lives they become entwined, the release of this Swedish production has been preceded by a bit of guerrilla marketing, and there is a making-of video available, also in Swedish of course.

Random Robot Roundup
Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:41:04 GMT -

Shermine of Universal Robots, a Danish company, writes to tell us about a light-weight robot arm and matching touch-screen controller they've just completed. We also got word of a new robotics and AI blog called NooTriX, check it out. For our LEGO fans, Simon tells us about WorldBricks, a website where you can download LEGO instructions and catalogs dating back to the 1950s. Guy Cefalu sent a link to the Element microcontroller for .NET developers. No specs on memory or CPU type yet but looks like a PIC. (bonus points to the first reader who posts instructions for using an open source compiler like SDCC with this one!) The Swirling Brain spotted an instructable for a tiny robot called the Roule_Robot, just 14g and 39x22mm. Finally, Colin Adamson wrote to tell us about the Kickstarter campaign for his OCULUS Surveillance and Telepresence Netbook Robot (which looks a bit like the old Evolution ER1). Know any other robot news, gossip, or amazing facts we should report? Send 'em our way please. And don't forget to follow us on twitter.

XYBOT video, by GeekBeat.tv
Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:46:22 GMT -

XYBOT with image of J.Bieber and text

It appears Justin Bieber got around at CES. So did the GeekBeat.tv crew, including to the XYBOTYX booth, where they recorded the XYBOT rolling around on a wooden platform.

Robots Podcast #95: David Lane of SeeByte and HWU-OSL
Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:16:58 GMT -

photo of Professor David Lane

In Robots Podcast episode #95 David Lane, Professor of Autonomous Systems Engineering and affiliated with the Heriot-Watt University Ocean Systems Laboratory (Edinburgh), talks with interviewer Per Sjoborg about his journey from research to business and back. He tells about how he got started first in offshore work then in robotics research, developing control software for autonomous underwater vehicles. He also tells how frustration with the lack of utilization of his work led he and his associates to start the company SeeByte, to commercialize it, and how having the U.S. Navy as their first customer proved very helpful towards the company's success. (Dr. Lane has much to say about the value of customer funding and customer focus for a startup.) Finally, he tells about his return to academia after finding the right person to take over the day-to-day details of running SeeByte, and how his experience in industry finds its way into his academic work.
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Catching up with Robots at CES II
Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:09:42 GMT -

photo of SoloWheel on sidewalk

CES is nearly over, but we have a few more items to share. The Inventist SoloWheel, shown above, was panned by The Verge as having zero chance of making it to the mainstream. As may be, pending further development, but the company provides an assortment of videos on its website. Without having tried it myself, I doubt it requires more skill than rollerblades. NEC showed its Communication Robot PaPeRo, a research prototype, not yet for sale, along with an Android app that allows users to control the robot remotely. There were Dancing Cats and Baby Seals, and a robotic vacuum cleaner that entertains while it works, and is itself cleaned out each time it docks. And last, but far from least, TechCrunch interviewed Bre Pettis of Makerbot about their new Replicator model, and the future of 3D printing.

TOSY Robotics mRobo Ultra Bass
Thu, 12 Jan 2012 06:14:32 GMT -

photo of mRobo from TOSY website

You've probably already heard about the event wherein Justin Bieber was enlisted to introduce TOSY's new mRobo at CES, but you may not have learned much about the device itself or the company that makes it. mRobo is a combination music player and dancing robot. It can store 2 gigabytes worth of music in its own memory, or stream it via bluetooth, or simply listen. In any case, when there's music playing, it sprouts a head, arms, and legs and begins to dance in time to the beat. The price is set at $199, and you won't be able to get one until later this year.

Catching up with Robots at CES
Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:09:33 GMT -

The video above shows iRobot's Ava telepresence platform paying a visit to the crew of The Verge, in their trailer at CES. Other exhibitors of interest include Parrot, showing their AR.Drone 2.0, and Sphero, with their iPhone-controlled ball. More to come.

Geek Media at CES 2012
Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:22:08 GMT -

The video above is an informal (always with Cali Lewis), very upbeat interview with Gary Shapiro, CEO of the CEA, sponsors of CES. Besides Cali and crew, The Verge and Engadget are also prowling the floor at CES 2012, and IEEE Spectrum is also covering the event. All four sometimes talk about robots, and we know there are robots there, so we're hoping for decent coverage, the best of which we'll be passing along.

Robots at CES 2012
Mon, 9 Jan 2012 17:49:48 GMT -

photo of set of cubelets from Modular Robotics

Robots figure more prominently at this year's CES than ever before. Among the many presenters are Modular Robotics, whose Cubelets are shown above, and XYBOTYX, developers of the XYBOT, a small two-wheeled balancing device that turns an iPhone into a telepresence robot.

Taking a lesson from lizards
Fri, 6 Jan 2012 16:39:21 GMT -



This video shows observations of a lizard jumping, followed by application of the techniques for use of a tail for stabilization to robots. (Via Automaton)

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MAKE brings the do-it-yourself mindset to all the technology in your life. MAKE is loaded with exciting projects that help you make the most of your technology at home and away from home. This is a magazine that celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your own will. (Quite a few mini-robots to build in a weekend.)

Make a Reprap Robot Part 1: The Electronics - Weekend Project Podcast   Make a Repstrap (Part 2) - Weekend Projects Podcast
 

Mill Engine. Engineering and Mechanical Portal.  Engineering links, Mechanical links, engineers, machines, engines. Civil Engineering,  architecture, construction, transportation, etc...

Search for Robotics related links on A Science Portal. Ideal for Science Projects. Links to cutting edge science related web sites. Cutting edge science. Research and breakthroughs using State of the Art and discovery's of new sciences, physics, cosmology, the Universe, power sources, control units, memory devices, displays, portable computers, nanotechnology, organic, biological, medical, neurology, mobile, portable, WAP, G3, electronic, etc. Earth science, engineering and bandwidth solutions. Robotics, gadgets, chemical and telecommunications. Social, psychology and politics. A look at the future?  Nanobots, NanoRobots, Nanotechnolgy. Dangers of Nanotechnology. Is Nanotechnology dangerous?

Let's Make Robots LMR a free and volunteer based initiative. Let's Make Robots is a community of robot building people, therefore nice people. Submit your own robots. See most collected robots here.

Boston Dynamics Big Dog :- Boston Dynamics Big Dog :-
Stickybot is an embodiment of our hypotheses about the requirements for mobility on vertical surfaces using dry adhesion. The main point is that we don't need more adhesion, we need controllable adhesion. The essential ingredients are:
  • hierarchical compliance for conforming at centimeter, millimeter and micrometer scales,
  • anisotropic dry adhesive materials and structures so that we can control adhesion by controlling shear,
  • distributed active force control that works with compliance and anisotropy to achieve stability.

Stanford StickyBot

20 Things You Didn't Know About... Robots

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Robot Maker Includes Micro and Nano Class Geared Motors.    Nanobots, NanoRobots, Nanotechnolgy. Dangers of Nanotechnology. Is Nanotechnology dangerous?

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Robot Housekeeper Building Small Robots: One Cubic Inch Micro-Sumo Robots and Smaller.

Picks up dirty dishes from the table and carries them to the sink for washing.
Then cleans the floor.
 

Building Small Robots: Making One Cubic Inch Micro-Sumo Robots and Smaller   -   More DIY How To Projects

Worlds Smallest Robot   Build a Very Small Robot
 
  Make The World's Smallest Wheeled Robot With A Gripper. Build a 1/20 cubic inch robot with a gripper that can pick up and move small objects. It is controlled by a Picaxe microcontroller. At this point in time, I believe this may be the world's smallest wheeled robot with a gripper. That will no doubt change, tomorrow or next week, when someone builds so...

New robots climb stairs and have spines      SmartPlanet Main Web Site

Robotics researchers from around the world gathered in San Francisco to share their work at the 2011 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.

SmartPlanet correspondent Sumi Das gets friendly with robots that are flying to greater heights and interacting in more human-like ways.

Biometal Self Control Robot Citizen mini robots

Dr. Rrobot Inc., is a developer and manufacturer of mobile robotics technology, providing autonomous robots solutions tailored for commercial and industrial security, monitoring and inventory applications.

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YouTube video   Cratchbot robot navigates with whiskers
 

Interested in sensing things without using sight? So are the researchers at the University of Sheffield and Bristol Robotics Laboratory, who have developed the Scratchbot robot that can navigate by waving around a set of 18 whiskers.

To design their sensors, they began by reverse-engineering a rat's whiskers using high-speed video cameras. After studying how the rat used the whiskers, they developed a mechanical system that was able to perform in a similar manner. The larger whiskers were then outfitted with a magnet and hall effect sensors, which allowed their motion to be observed. Then, instead of developing a traditional software-based motion control system, the researchers developed a neurologically-inspired system that uses an FPGA to simulate how the rat's brain actually reacts to whisker movement. The result is a robot capable of sensing the world around it using only touch.

As a sight-based organism, I find it humbling that there are so many other ways of navigating the world that do not involve light. In this case, the whiskers on many creatures are sensitive enough to detect subtle textures and patterns in the world around them, and this works well as a replacement for vision in navigation. Cool stuff! [via neatorama]

T. R. I, Toy Robots Initiative aims to commercialize robotics technologies for human-robot collaboration in education, toys, entertainment and art. (Don't underrate because of the work Toy)

RoboGames (Formally ROBOlympics), is the world's largest open robot competition.  We invite the best minds from around the world to compete.

Web Japan Trends Robot

Open Directory - Computers: Robotics: Building

Robot Haven A Refuges for Robots.

Robot Group TX artists and engineers who shared a common vision: utilizing technology to provide and explore new mediums for art. Through the synergy of fusing art and technology.

Robotics Institute

Robozes 

Triangle Amateur Robotics (TAR) is dedicated to creating personal robots for fun and knowledge. (North Carolina State University campus)

Robodance 4 works with i-Sobot and Wiimote

Robosapien Dance Machine.

MAKE: Blog pal, and author of Robodance, Robert Oschler, is in the process of updating this free Robosapien control program so that it can also work with the new Tomy i-Sobot, using the IR connection on the robot and the Nintendo Wii remote controller (Wiimote). This video offers a sneak peak of Robodance 4's capabilities.

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HOW TO - Make an OAWR

Obstacle Avoiding Walking Robot)

This Instructable shows how to make a little walking robot which avoids obstacles (much like many commercially available options). But what's the fun in buying a toy when you can instead start with a motor, sheet of plastic and pile of bolts and proceed to build your own. Well I hope you share this attitude and please enjoy.

  HOW TO - Build a robot arm (robot arm clock videos) 

Society of Robots has a great video of a robot arm-clocks

The robot arm is probably the most mathematically complex robot you could ever build. As such, this tutorial cant tell you everything you need to know. Instead, I will take shortcuts and just talk about the bear minimum you need to know to build an effective robot arm. Please bear with the math . . . enjoy!

To get you started, here is a video of a robot arm assignment I had when I took Robotic Manipulation back in college. My group programmed it to type the current time into the keyboard . . . (lesson learned, don't crash robot arms into your keyboard at full speed while testing)

HOW TO - Build a robot arm Link.
In The Future, All Break-Dancing B-Boys Will Be Robots Mobile robot does CNC, (More CNC) :-

:   Sparky - Autonomous Telepresence Robot

Gomi Style, they build a low-cost telepresence robot. There are some "problems" with this video. It's not an "autonomous" robot if *you* control it and the show is called Gomi Style, and they say the robot is made of junk they have lying around, but then, it's made with the Vex robotics system, the MAKE Controller, a Mac Mini, an iSight camera, and an LCD monitor. Still, they manage to make a pretty decent telepresence bot for probably under $1000.

Sparky Jr - Make a DIY Mobile Videochat Telepresence Robot    
  Spark.jr DIY, open source mobile telepresence.Get free software and instructions, plus how-to videos, hardware links and more connecting you the growing community of mobile telepresence and videochat ROV builders.

What is Telepresence?
Telepresence refers to technologies that allow a person to see, hear and sense a location other than their true location, as well as have an effect in that remote location. Commonly referred to as videochat, telepresence is used by surgeons, NASA scientists and rescue workers as well as family and friends in separate locations.

But why Sparky?
SPARKY is a rough acronym for Self Portrait Artifact Roving Chassis.

But Im not technical? How can I build a telepresenece robot?
We provide all the software and easy to follow, step-by-step instructions that will walk you through the process of building and running a robot, using things like Mac Minia's, Roomba vacuum's, Vex, Erector set parts and assorted found objects.

Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology   Worth watching in full; IMHO.
 

TED India, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data -- including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper "laptop." In an onstage Q&A, Mistry says he'll open-source the software behind SixthSense, to open its possibilities to all.

About Pranav Mistry The inventor of SixthSense, a wearable device that enables new interactions between the real world and the world of data.

Pranav Mistry Website 

TED Ideas worth spreading

 

 

Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense    
 

This demo -- from Pattie Maes' lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry

Was the buzz of Ted. It's a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment. Imagine "Minority Report" and then some.

About Pattie Maes   At the MIT Media Lab's new Fluid Interfaces Group, Pattie Maes researches the tools we use to work with information and connect with one another.

Pattie Maes is an associate professor in MIT Media Lab Program in Media Arts and Sciences

Ted Ideas worth spreading

Large Database of Robotics videos displays of innovation.

Robotics fairs and exhibitions

Robots Dreams   Robot Video's  Robots Resources

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Roborama

BotJunkie Obsessively chronicles Man's inevitable descent into cybernetic slavery :-

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BotJunkie teaming up with IEEE Automaton to make the world’s greatest robotics blog
Sun, 13 Feb 2011 00:24:04 +0000 - We’ve got some big news. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (aka IEEE) really, really likes what we’ve been doing at BotJunkie, and they want to make us a part of their flagship online and print publication, IEEE Spectrum. Specifically, they’ve got a robotics blog called Automaton, and BotJunkie is going to be moving [...]
Interview: iRobot Scooba 230
Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:34:43 +0000 - We gave you the rundown on iRobot’s new Scooba 230 back when it was first announced in January, but we got to see it in person at CES. First impression: it’s damn tiny. If you’re familiar with the cleaning habits of the Roomba, the Scooba won’t offer much in the way of surprises, but we [...]
Interview: Derek Dotson on Pleo Reborn
Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:30:50 +0000 - Innvo Labs was out in force at CES 2011, the last few videos from which I’m still messing with. I know, I know feel free not to tip me this week. Anyway, I got some cute pics of their new Pleo Reborn plus 10 minutes with Innvo’s COO Derek Dotson, one of Pleo’s original daddies [...]
This Robotic Dragonfly Flew 40 Years Ago
Wed, 09 Feb 2011 08:03:17 +0000 - This is a robotic dragonfly. If I told you that some company had just invented it and it was flying around today, you’d probably be impressed. Instead, I’m going to tell you that it was developed by the CIA and was flying in the 1970s. And not just flying like proof-of-concept-it-gets-off-the-ground flying, but reportedly, the [...]
QB Fetches Scones, Justifies Pricetag
Tue, 08 Feb 2011 08:30:14 +0000 - Wondering what a $15k telepresence robot can do for you? WONDER NO LONGER. With the help of a 4G wireless hotspot, this QB wandered out of the Anybots office into downtown Mountain View looking for a snack. A mile later, it found a Red Rock Coffee and ordered a berry scone, tipped something like 125% [...]
Bionic Hamster Walking Machine (Of DOOM)
Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:47:29 +0000 - Hamster powered robots are something of a running joke, but Crabfu (you remember him, right?) has managed to create a walking robot out of a kit modeled originally on Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests that’s powered by a cute n’ fluffy hamster named Princess. The first question is, of course, why would you make a robot that’s [...]
Robot Fighter Jet Makes First Flight
Mon, 07 Feb 2011 08:24:11 +0000 - Northrop Grumman’s sexily badass X-47B unmanned combat air system made its first flight ever on Friday, circling a desert runway a couple times all by itself before successfully not crashing. Northrop seemed pretty happy about the way things went: “The flight provided test data to verify and validate system software for guidance and navigation, and [...]
ROS 3D Kinect Contest Winners
Fri, 04 Feb 2011 08:18:01 +0000 - This is maybe only peripherally (ha!) related to robotics, but it’s cool enough that I thought it was worth sharing… Besides, it’s Friday, and you deserve some nifty videos to watch. Anyway, we’ve posted before on all the cool things that roboticists have been able to do with Microsoft’s stupidly cheap and effective 3D camera [...]
Pay Attention To This Advertising Robot, Or Get Run Over
Thu, 03 Feb 2011 08:53:58 +0000 - Yeah, it’s cute now ’cause this is the first one, but unlike a super annoying person, you can’t necessarily just tell a super annoying robot to leave you alone and rely on it to a.) understand you and b.) care. ‘There’s no getting away from an offer this good,’ huh? You fill me with dread, [...]
Anybots QB Now Shipping
Wed, 02 Feb 2011 09:30:06 +0000 - If you gambled on pre-ordering a QB telepresence robot from Anybots, you lucked out, since QB is now officially shipping, and you’ll get your robot this week. Ordering a QB today (it’s still $15,000) will get you one in March, but the important thing is that QB is now a real commercial robotic product that [...]

Hexapod Dance-Off video from the Austrian Hexapod Dance-Off. (Not really a robot but great fun). The Hexapod moves are sure expressive organised by BotJunkie-

eild Robotics Center the future of field robotics by creating automated work machines for land, sea, air and space.

TeleRAD is a radiation survey robot. The name stands for distance Radiation Absorbed Dose or in other words detecting radiation levels remotely. TeleRAD uses a Geiger counter to detect radiation levels.

Distributed Boundary Coverage with a Swarm of Miniature Robots.  investigate collaborative coverage with a self-organizing swarm of minimalist robots. The inspection of the compressor section of a (jet) turbine engine is a motivating case study (see IROS'06 and BSSAC'07 for a high-level overview).

Robotics and Automation, 2001. Proceedings 2001 ICRA. IEEE International Conference

Your first robot - the beetle robot

How to build your first PICAXE robot

Total Robots Total Robots BEAM. The term BEAM is an acronym for Biology, Electronics, Aesthetics and Mechanics. BEAM robotics was invented (and is patented) by Dr Mark W. Tilden whilst he was a student at University in Canada. Includes OOPic.

How-To: Build BEAM Vibrobots The key to Vibrobot movement is a motor (or motors) that employs an unbalanced weight. Pager and other motors used to create vibration alerts in consumer electronics use this technique. As the motor shaft spins, the weight on the shaft, being off-kilter, makes the motor, and therefore the entire pager, vibrate. Hook such a motor up to a little robo-critter with four fixed legs, and when the motor fires and the weight starts spinning, the bot will skitter across the floor.

BEAM robotics is the brain child of Mark W. Tilden who is currently working at "Los Alamos National Laboratory" in Los Alamos, New Mexico, US. BEAM robotics as described in the BEAM rule book: 1/: A description of what aspects a roving robot creature could contain. BEAM is a triple acronym which stands for :-
Biology Electronics Aesthetics Mechanics
Building Evolution Anarchy Modularity
Biotechnology Ethnology Analogy Morphology

A Beginner's Guide to BEAM - The BEAM design approach creates nimble robots from simple components, with no programming required.

BEAM Bots


Protozoan Flagellates from Jessica Field on Vimeo.
  Canadian artist Jessica Field. Jessica makes these wonderful, funky little robo-critters, some BEAMish, others more sophisticated, with computer-control. I like how she "programs" failures/shortcomings into her robot creations. (Wait, don't most robots do that on their own?) 

Jessica's "Field Studies"

Slarbotics offers competition robot kits, solar-powered robots, books, electronic components, motors, parts and information on the expanding field of BEAM Robotics. Enjoy our website, and we welcome your comments.

Solar Powered Picaxe Microbot (Vibrobot) This microbot is also called a vibrobot because it vibrates in order to generate horizontal motion.

Solarbotics is a BEAM robotics community server.  Complete BEAMbot Circuits  BEAM From the Ground Up

A Beginner's Guide to BEAM   (Makezine)

Build a Simple Vibrobot, (Not really a robot)    
  A Simple Vibrobot. Build a simple vibrating robot. A hobby robot, well almost.

Wiring :-
A Simple Vibrobot wiring.

Items required for the Simple Vibrobot :-

  • Two motors from a old Broken PS2 DuoShock, (Dualshock) Controller
  • A PP3 Battery Connector.
  • PP3 Battery.
  • Some BluTack
Twist the ends of the wires from the two motors from  together so that each motor will
turn in the opposite direction to each other.

Connect these twisted motor wire ends to the battery wires.

Place some BluTack on to each motor bottom and stick to the PP3 Battery.

Plug the PP3 connector to the battery. Unplug to stop.

 

HOW TO - Make a Bristlebot a tiny directional vibrobot made from a toothbrush!

The BristleBot is a simple and tiny robot with an agenda. The ingredients? One toothbrush, a battery, and a pager motor. The result? Serious fun. The BristleBot is our take on the popular vibrobot, a simple category of robot that is controlled by a single vibrating (eccentric) motor. Some neat varieties include the mint-tin version as seen in Make Magazine (check the video), and the kid's art bot: a vibrobot with pens for feet.

Robot Arm With Fluidic Muscles.

 Airic's_arm is a robotic arm inspired by your own arm. The company describes it as a "combination of mechatronics and the biological model of a human being."

The mechanical foundation - the "skeleton" - of Festo's Airic's arm is literally a metal version of the human skeletal structure. The radius and ulna (primary bones of the forearm), the metacarpals (hand and fingers) and the shoulder and shoulder blade are duplicated

 

Bittybot help you make smaller robots.

Robot Education. The Institute for Personal Robots in Education (IPRE) applies and evaluates robots as a context for computer science education.

Spider Robot Project Page An 'in-progress' project involving the addition of a PIC micro brain to a small robot.

PIC Guide (With Links)

Proton Geeks Proton PIC Users Group

PIC/Ubicom     Robotics

PICAXE microcontrollers are exciting, low-cost, re-programmable chips that can be used as low-cost 'brains' in many kinds of electronic project. For further information browse the index bar on the left hand side of the screen.

PIC & Electronic Development on a Shoestring

ooPIC, (Object-Oriented PIC), is a different approach in microcontrollers that uses objects to control the attached hardware while the application program focuses on controlling the objects.  Programmed in Basic, C, or Java syntax styles. Uses Object-oriented concepts.  More Object oriented programming links.

PrintBot

Programmable Paper. Amazing program paper into shapes, paper aeroplane, etc     Amazing !!!  Programmable Paper. Amazing program paper into shapes, paper aeroplane, etc

Programmable Paper. You can program paper to make shapes, paper dart aeroplane, etc, (OK, maybe it's not quite paper), but watch this fold itself into shape under programming control.

A group of researchers from Harvard and MIT have pushed us closer to a world of programmable matter. Their approach is a self-folding surface that can take on almost any shape. The above video from ScienceMag shows the surface turning into a small sailboat and paper plane. [via slashdot
]

Based on the ancient art of origami, the sheets are edged by foil actuators--thin, solid-state motors--that contract or expand when they receive an electric current from flexible electronic circuits embedded in the sheets. After they achieve their preprogrammed shape, the sheets are held in place by tiny magnets on the edges of the fold joints.

Abstract:

Programmable matter is a material whose properties can be programmed to achieve specific shapes or stiffnesses upon command. This concept requires constituent elements to interact and rearrange intelligently in order to meet the goal. This paper considers achieving programmable sheets that can form themselves in different shapes autonomously by folding. Past approaches to creating transforming machines have been limited by the small feature sizes, the large number of components, and the associated complexity of communication among the units. We seek to mitigate these difficulties through the unique concept of self-folding origami with universal crease patterns. This approach exploits a single sheet composed of interconnected triangular sections. The sheet is able to fold into a set of predetermined shapes using embedded actuation. To implement this self-folding origami concept, we have developed a scalable end-to-end planning and fabrication process. Given a set of desired objects, the system computes an optimized design for a single sheet and multiple controllers to achieve each of the desired objects. The material, called programmable matter by folding, is an example of a system capable of achieving multiple shapes for multiple functions

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Robots: Advances in Bipedal Locomotion
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:00:00 GMT - In this episode we talk to Subramanian Ramamoorthy from the University of Edinburgh about the recent progress in walking robotics. We then speak with Felipe Brandão Cavalcanti who is an Electrical Engineering student working on stability and gait generation for humanoids at the University of Brasilia.
Robots: From Reasearch to Industry in the AUV Market
Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:00:00 GMT - Today David Lane from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh talks about his journey from research to business and back. He talks about how he got started in offshore work and robotics research and how that led him to develop new smarts for existing hardware. David shares his personal view on how the Thunderbirds, diving and the [...]
Robots: Best of 2011
Fri, 30 Dec 2011 07:00:00 GMT - In this episode, the Robots Podcast team looks at the robots and technologies that marked 2011. We'll be discussing industrial robots, cloud robotics, soft robots, service robots, aerial robots, autonomous cars, agriculture robots, bio-inspired robots, human-like walkers and swarm robotics.
Robots: Turning Robots into Products
Fri, 16 Dec 2011 07:00:00 GMT - In todays episode we look at robots made by Adept Technology with Product Marketing Manager, Erin Rapacki. She talks about the robots developed at Adept, her hopes for mobile robots, the media hype that surrounds robotics, the need for researchers to think of real-world problems and cloud robotics.
Robots: Robotics Roadmaps – USA
Fri, 02 Dec 2011 07:00:00 GMT - In today’s episode we discuss the national funding strategies of the USA, as a part of our special series on funding strategies worldwide. Our first episode on the subject looked at funding in Japan with Tomomasa Sato. Today we'll be focussing on the Robotics Roadmap in the USA with one of its main creators, Henrik Christensen.
Robots: Connectors & Modular Robots
Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:00:00 GMT - In today's show we hear from our new collaborator, Per Sjoborg who is the founder of Flexibility Envelope, a blog on self-reconfiguring modular robotics. He speaks to Martin Nilsson from the Swedish Institute of Computer Science about his experience in making snake robots and connectors for modular robotics.
Robots: Made in Brazil
Fri, 04 Nov 2011 07:00:00 GMT - In today's show, we take you all the way to Brazil. Marcelo Becker from the University of São Paulo (USP) talks to us about how mobile robots are going to help change agriculture, manufacturing and driving in his country. We then speak with Marcel de Sena Dall'Agnol a student at USP about the excellent robotics competition they organized at SEMATRON, a mechatronics conference organized by USP undergraduates.
Robots: Demonstrations at IROS
Fri, 21 Oct 2011 07:00:00 GMT - In today's show, we hear about two demonstrations that caught our attention at IROS. Péter Fankhauser from the ETH in Zürich tells us about the Rezero ballbot, a balancing robot that speeds around on a sphere. Mike Rubenstein from the Self-organizing Systems Research Group at Harvard then tells us about their efforts to make swarms of 1024 robots a reality with the kilobot project.
Robots: IROS Exhibit Hall
Fri, 07 Oct 2011 07:00:00 GMT - In today's show we take you around the Exhibit hall of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) that took place in San Francisco last week. IROS is one of the main conferences in robotics, attracting thousands of roboticists from around the world. By bringing you around the permanent exhibit hall, we hope to give you a feel for what it was like to be there. We'll be stopping at nearly every booth, talking to leaders in the field, asking about the robots we see, listening to robots, and even doing some demos along the way.
Robots: Educational Robotics
Fri, 23 Sep 2011 07:00:00 GMT - In today's show, we look at the playful field of educational robotics with expert Dr. Francesco Mondada, director of the MOBOTS group. We then dive into the details with Stéphane Magnenat (ETHZ), creator of the easy to use ASEBA software and Fanny Riedo (EPFL), builder of the low-cost educational Thymio II robot.
Robots: Robot Art III
Fri, 09 Sep 2011 07:00:00 GMT - This episode is the last of this three part special series about robot art with guest interviewer David St-Onge, an engineer working at the interface of visionary arts and creative science. He brings us into his world through in-depth conversations with 6 world renowned experts in the field. In today's show, we talk to Leonel Moura, a European artist born in Lisbon and robotics and Ken Rinaldo, Director of the Art and Technology program in the Department of Art at The Ohio State University. Both artists are well known for their dual talent as artist and robot engineer, having built many of their systems themselves.
Robots: Robot Art II
Fri, 26 Aug 2011 07:00:00 GMT - This episode is the second of a three part special series about robot art with guest interviewer David St-Onge, an engineer working at the interface of visionary arts and creative science. David was our guest in previous episode with the Robots Podcast about robot art. He now brings us into his world through in-depth [...]
Robots: Robot Art I
Thu, 11 Aug 2011 07:00:00 GMT - This episode is the first of a three part special series about robot art with guest interviewer David St-Onge, an engineer working at the interface of visionary arts and creative science. You might remember David from a previous interview with the Robots Podcast. He now brings us into his world of robot art through in-depth conversations with 6 world renowned experts in the field. In today's show, we talk to Nicolas Reeves from the University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada and Stelarc from Brunel University in the UK. Both have worked together in the past on the floating head experiment.
Robots: Our favorite Robots
Fri, 29 Jul 2011 07:00:00 GMT - The ROBOTS team has grown steadily over the years, filling its ranks with robot enthusiasts from the Switzerland, USA, Greece, UK, Brazil and Japan. We take care of everything, from digging out the latest news, to interviewing main actors in robotics, animating the episodes, maintaining the website, and mixing the podcasts. We're students, senior roboticists, hobbyists and journalists. In today's summer episode we decided it was time to share our two cents about 1) why we love robotics and 2) what robots spark our enthusiasm.
Robots: Demining and Defusing
Fri, 15 Jul 2011 07:00:00 GMT - In this episode we speak with Frederic Guerne of Digger DTR and Paul Bosscher of Harris Corp.
Robots: The Mind Machine Project
Fri, 01 Jul 2011 07:00:00 GMT - In this episode we speak with Newton Howard, director of the Mind Machine Project and research scientist at MIT.
Robots: Schunk Manipulators
Fri, 17 Jun 2011 07:00:00 GMT - In this episode we speak with Henrik Schunk, Managing Partner of SCHUNK GmbH & Co. KG and Chairman of EUnited Robotics about high-end grippers, service robotics and European endeavors.
Robots: The Bilibot Project
Fri, 03 Jun 2011 07:00:00 GMT - In today's episode we talk about a new generation of affordable robots with the Bilibot project and its leader Garratt Gallagher.
Robots: Blended Reality
Fri, 20 May 2011 07:00:00 GMT - In today's episode we meet with Natalie Freed, David Robert and Adam Setapen from Cynthia Breazeal's Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab. They'll be telling us about the Playtime Computing System, a playground where kids can interact with the physical world and its virtual extension.
Robots: European Robotics (Part 2)
Fri, 06 May 2011 07:00:00 GMT - Second of a two-part feature on the European Robotics Forum, an event jointly organized by EUROP and EURON and hosted this year in Sweden by Robotdalen. Thanks to an invitation by EUnited Robotics, we got a chance to be there and talk to some of Europe's major players in the field, from both industry and research. In today's show we speak with Bernd Liepert CTO of KUKA AG and president of EUROP and Rich Walker from Shadow Robot.
Robots: European Robotics (Part 1)
Fri, 22 Apr 2011 07:00:00 GMT - First of a two-part feature on the European Robotics Forum, an event jointly organized by EUROP and EURON and hosted this year in Sweden by Robotdalen. Thanks to an invitation by EUnited Robotics, we got a chance to be there and talk to some of Europe's major players in the field, from both industry and research.
Robots: Robotic Arts
Fri, 08 Apr 2011 07:00:00 GMT - Our episode today features David St-Onge, an engineer working at the interface of visionary arts and creative science. Having participated in numerous robotic-art projects (including the Cloudharp, SAILS, the Mascarillon) he talks about the opportunities and challenges of undertaking projects combining the contrasting domains of arts and science/engineering.
Robots: Mind Control
Fri, 25 Mar 2011 07:00:00 GMT - In today's episode we look at a novel way to interact with your robot: through mind control. Raul Rojas returns to our show to talk about how his AutoNOMOS team used brain waves to give commands to their autonomous vehicle, MadeInGermany. We then talk to Geoffrey Mackeller, CTO of Emotiv Systems, the producer of the EEG headset used as an interface for this project.
Robots: Future Manipulators
Fri, 11 Mar 2011 07:00:00 GMT - n today's show we'll be talking about futuristic manipulators that look nothing like the typical industrial robot arms you've seen in factories. Our first guest, Heinrich Jaeger from the University of Chicago tells us about the soft universal gripper that was published in PNAS this year. Our second guest, Andrzej Grzesiak, presents the bio-inspired manipulator he created with Festo and that won the German Future Prize last year.
Robots: Telepresence
Fri, 25 Feb 2011 07:00:00 GMT - In today's show we'll have a look the next killer application in robotics, telepresence. Our first guest, Jean-Christophe Baillie, is the CEO of Gostai which just commercialized the Jazz series this year. Our second guest, Trevor Blackwell, presents his company's Anybots.
Robots: Robotics Roadmaps – Japan
Fri, 11 Feb 2011 07:00:00 GMT - This episode is a first in a series about robotics funding and priorities worldwide. To start out, we'll be talking with an expert and leading figure in Japanese Robotics, Tomomasa Sato, who will give us insights into the Japanese robotics roadmap.
Robots: Odor Source Localization
Fri, 28 Jan 2011 07:00:00 GMT - In this episode we revisit robot olfaction and take a closer look at the problem of odor source localization. Our first guest, Hiroshi Ishida from the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology is an expert in the field, whose sniffing robots range from blimps to ground and underwater robots. Our second guest, Thomas Lochmatter from EPFL talks about tradeoffs between biologically inspired and probabilistic approaches to navigate a gas plume.
Robots: Harvest Automation
Fri, 14 Jan 2011 07:00:00 GMT - Joe Jones, co-founder of Harvest Automation, presents the future of agriculture and speaks of lessons learnt from Roomba. Don't miss our new NEWS feature in partnership with robots.net.
Robots: Multi-Robot Teams
Fri, 31 Dec 2010 07:00:00 GMT - Vijay Kumar and Daniel Mellinger from the GRASP Lab at UPenn present their work on developing multi-robot teams for real-world applications. Some of their most recent work includes aggressive maneuvers, SLAM and cooperative transport with quadrotor platforms.
Robots: Science Fiction II
Fri, 17 Dec 2010 07:00:00 GMT - In this episode we dive into the world of famous science fiction writer Greg Bear. We then take you on an audio journey through one of his books, Mariposa. Finally don't forget to send us your YouTube holiday videos featuring robots.
Robots: Personal Helpers
Fri, 03 Dec 2010 07:00:00 GMT - In this episode, Steve Cousins, CEO of Willow Garage talks about the advent of Personal Robots, their PR2 robot and the Robot Operating System ROS. Our second guest, Moritz Tenorth, tells us about his experience working with these tools and his PhD on helping robots understand and reason about their world.
Robots: Dependable Swarms
Fri, 19 Nov 2010 07:00:00 GMT - Alan Winfield from the Bristol Robotics Lab discusses the potential and pitfalls of swarm robotics and their use in real-world applications. He also talks about transparent science, blogging and robot ethics.
Robots: Autonomous Vehicles
Fri, 05 Nov 2010 07:00:00 GMT - In today’s episode we take a deeper look at what’s behind the hype over autonomous vehicles, and talk to two experts in the field, Alberto Broggi, leader of the Vislab Intercontinental Vehicle Challenge, and Raul Rojas, leader of the Made in Germany autonomous vehicle project. Alberto Broggi Alberto Broggi is the Director of the Artificial Vision and [...]
Robots: Amateur UAVs
Fri, 22 Oct 2010 07:00:00 GMT - Chris Anderson, Editor-in-chief of WIRED and founder of DIY Drones presents his community of UAV enthusiasts and all the open source software and hardware developed to make your robots take-off.
Robots: Futurama
Fri, 08 Oct 2010 07:00:00 GMT - David X. Cohen describes the robots in Futurama and his vision on the future.
Robots: Olfaction
Fri, 24 Sep 2010 07:00:00 GMT - Achim Lilienthal from Örebro University in Sweden and Lino Forte Marques from the University of Coimbra in Portugal discuss smell as a sensor modality for mobile robots.
Robots: The Law
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:00:00 GMT - Ryan Calo, Senior Research Fellow at Stanford Law-School, discusses liability & privacy issues when considering robots and the law.
Robots: Programmable Matter
Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:00:00 GMT - Michael Tolley and Jonas Neubert from the Computational Synthesis Laboratory run by Hod Lipson at Cornell University present their approach at making programmable matter.
Robots: Distributed Flight Array
Fri, 13 Aug 2010 07:00:00 GMT - Raymond Oung from the Swiss Technical Institute of Technology in Zürich discusses the Distributed Flight Array, which is a new type of modular aerial robot. We then celebrate aerial robotics with a contest on flying robot noises for a chance to win a WowWee Bladestar.
Robots: Science Fiction
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:00:00 GMT - Patrick Gyger from the Maison d'Ailleurs, one of the major Science Fiction museums in the world, presents the history of robotics in the genre and discusses interactions between science and writing. We the bring you a re-edition of the Selkies stories written by Science Fiction writer Jack Graham in Boston. You can find more of his stories at lonesomerobot.com.
Robots: Nanosystems
Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:00:00 GMT - Ari Requicha from the University of Southern California and Grégory Mermoud from EPFL describe the soft- and hardware aspects of designing systems of nanorobots.
Robots: R&D at iRobot
Fri, 02 Jul 2010 07:00:00 GMT - Brian Yamauchi presents the research & development done at iRobot. As lead roboticist, he tells us about a large range of government projects from making the PackBot platforms more autonomous, work in teams of even fly to more futuristic projects that involve making soft and deformable robots. He also discusses the business of iRobot and the ethics of military robotics.
Robots: Modeling Biology
Fri, 18 Jun 2010 07:00:00 GMT - Barbara Webb from the University of Edinburgh discusses insect inspired robotics as a control system design approach. Steffen Wischman from the EPFL/UNIL then gives his view on when robots should be used to model biology and his interest in using artificial evolution.
Robots: Online Human-Robot Interactions
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 07:00:00 GMT - Sonia Chernova speaks about the new online game Mars Escape developed to study human-robot interactions. Lessons learnt will be demonstrated in a real-life replica of the game environment at the Boston Museum of Science, where visitors will have a chance to interact with the robot Nexi. Kenton Williams gives us more details on this very expressive robot.
Robots: The Nao Humanoid
Fri, 21 May 2010 07:00:00 GMT - Luc Degaudenzi and Cédric Vaudel from Aldebaran speak about the Nao platform and the future of the humanoid market. Don't miss Nao presenting himself and check out his story telling skills.
Robots: 50 Years of Robotics (Part 2)
Fri, 07 May 2010 07:00:00 GMT - In this 51st episode we conclude our 2-part special on 50 years of robotics. For the occasion we speak with 12 scientists about the most remarkable developments in their field of robotics over the last 50 years and their prediction for next half-century. Today’s episode features Jean-Christophe Zufferey on flying robots, Dan Kara on the robotics market, Kristinn Thórisson on AI, Andrea Thomaz on human robot interactions, Terry Fong on space robotics and Richard Jones on nano robots.
Robots: 50 Years of Robotics (Part 1)
Fri, 23 Apr 2010 07:00:00 GMT - Today we celebrate the 50th episode of ROBOTS! For the occasion we speak with 12 scientists about the most remarkable developments in their field of robotics over the last 50 years and their prediction for next half-century. This 50th special is split into two episodes with the second half airing in two weeks. Today we speak with Rolf Pfeifer on robotics in general, Mark Tilden on robot toys, Hiroshi Ishiguro on androids, Oscar Schofield on underwater robots, Steve Potter on brain machine interfaces and Chris Rogers on eduction robots.
Robots: URBI Software Platform
Fri, 9 Apr 2010 07:00:00 GMT - Jean-Christophe Baillie introduces us to URBI, the universal robotics software platform that's already been implemented on several different robots and is going open source in May 2010.
Robots: Chaos Control
Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:00:00 GMT - Poramate Manoonpong speaks about using chaotic input to central pattern generators. Alex Pitti describes way to synchronise a non-linear controller to the dynamics of the body it is controlling.
Robots: The Future of Artificial Intelligence
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:00:00 GMT - Kristinn R. Thórisson on the past, present and future of Artificial Intelligence.
Robots: Satellite Swarms
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:00:00 GMT - Alvar Saenz-Otero from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology talks about miniature satellites that create swarms in space.
Robots: AUV Missions
Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:00:00 GMT - Oscar Schofield from the Rutgers Coastal Ocean Observation Lab talks about autonomous ocean gliders and the Scarlet Knight that crossed the Atlantic. Mark Moline from the Center for Coastal Marine Sciences at California Poly State University speaks about his expedition to the Arctic with AUVs in freezing conditions.
Robots: Quadrotors
Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:00:00 GMT - Joshua Portlock from Cyber Technology in Perth Australia tells us about Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, and in particular the CyberQuad, a 4-rotor autonomous helicopter that can be used for surveillance and inspection of hard-to-reach places from the air.
Robots: Deep-Sea Exploration
Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:00:00 GMT - Alberto Collasius Jr. from the Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering Department at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the US talks about his time at sea as expedition leader with the JASON remotely operated vehicle.
Robots: New Year's Special
Fri, 1 Jan 2010 07:00:00 GMT - Cecilia Lashi, co-coordinator of the Octopus European project, talks about a soft bio-mimetic robotic octopus arm; Hobbyist Carl Morgan, presents his sleek silver humanoid that rides behind your tandem bike and does all the pedaling; and Carson Reynolds, professor at the University of Tokyo, tells us about his high-speed robotic hand.
Robots: Weight-Loss Coach
Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:00:00 GMT - Cory Kidd is the founder of Intuitive Automata Inc. which commercializes a robotic weight-loss coach born during his PhD at the MIT Media Lab. He tells us about how good human-robot interaction can keep people motivated to eat well and exercise. We'll also be holding a Christmas contest for a chance to win two robot kits for beginners.
Robots: Planetary Exploration
Fri, 4 Dec 2009 07:00:00 GMT - Julie Townsend from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California talks about her work with NASA's Mars rovers and the lunar ATHLETE robot. Sebastian Gautsch from the the SAMLAB in Neuchatel, Switzerland, tells us about the Atomic Force Microscope that was sent to Mars aboard the Phoenix lander in the Spring of 2008.
Robots: Learning
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:00:00 GMT - Andrea Thomaz from Georgia Tech looks at how humans can teach and humanoids learn with the hope to create good human-robot interactions. We then speak with Sethu Vijayakumar from the University of Edinburgh about machine learning and how it can be used to teach a robot hand to balance a pole.
Robots: Stroke Rehabilitation
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 07:00:00 GMT - Ludovic Dovat from the Singapore National University tells us about stroke victims' trouble re-learning to use their hands, and the robotic systems he designed to help with the rehabilitation process. David Brown tells us about the effects of stroke and his company Kinea Design that produces robots that help people learn to walk in unstructured terrain.
Robots: Slithering Creatures
Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:00:00 GMT - Howie Choset from Carnegie Mellon University explains the basics of snake robots, and how he hopes to see them used anywhere from disaster areas to industrial inspection or even surgery. Erik Kyrkjebø from SINTEF Applied Cybernetics in Norway speaks about their own pipe inspection robots as well as a snake robot designed for fighting fires.
Robots: Active Touch
Fri, 9 Oct 2009 07:00:00 GMT - Tony Prescott from the University of Sheffield speaks about active perception in rats, and presents his SCRATCHbot robot that features artificial whiskers. Elio Tuci from the Italian National Research Council speaks of a robot arm that can distinguish between different objects using active perception.
Robots: Emergent Communication
Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:00:00 GMT - Sara Mitri, researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne speaks about her bio-inspired experiments on the evolution of communication. Jürgen Jost, director at Leipzig's Max Planck Institute, discusses intentionality in robot communication.
Robots: Celebrating Invention
Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:00:00 GMT - Dean Kaman from DEKA research speaks about the spirit of invention that drives him to create products that improve lives, and of the FIRST initiative that encourages young children to get engaged in engineering and science.
Robots: Robot-Assisted Surgery
Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:00:00 GMT - Rainer Konietschke at the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics of the German Aerospace Centre explains the MiroSurge project for robotic endoscopic surgery. Woung Youn Chung at the Yonsei University College of Medicine in Seoul, Korea explains using the Da Vinci surgical robot to treat thyroid cancer.
Robots: Brain-Machine Interfaces
Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:00:00 GMT - Charles Higgins from the University of Arizona tells us how he uses insects to control robot motion. Steve Potter from the Georgia Institute of Technololgy explains how he grows neural circuitry in a Petri-dish and interfaces it with robots.
Robots: Smart Homes
Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:00:00 GMT - Roger Orpwood, director of the Bath Institute of Medical Engineering in the UK explains how smart homes can be used to help dementia patients stay independent and receive better care. Andrew Sixsmith, Professor at Simon Fraser University in Canada then shares his experience from a medical perspective.
Robots: Soft Machines
Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:00:00 GMT - Richard Jones, Professor of Physics at the University of Sheffield in the UK talks about Soft Machines, the future nanorobots inspired from biology.
Robots: From Animals to Automation
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:00:00 GMT - Markus Fischer, head of the Bionic Learning Network project and head of Corporate Design talks transferring technology from biomimetic research to actual products and their work on the AquaPenguin, AquaRay and AirJelly. Victor Zykov, PhD and PostDoc from Cornell University talks about modular robotics and introduces his bio-inspired Molecubes.
Robots: Celebrity Robots Brought to Life
Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT - Fred Barton, also known as "Robotman", introduces Robby the Robot and talks about building robot collectibles for museums and fellow enthusiasts.
Robots: Autonomous City Explorer
Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT - Dirk Wollherr, senior researcher at the Technical University of Munich, and Astrid Weiss from the University of Salzburg on the design and the goals of the Autonomous City Explorer (ACE) robot.
Robots: Robot actors at the theater
Fri, 22 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT - Swiss theater director Christian Denisart talks about his latest play where 3 of the 5 main characters are mobile robots. Nicolas Tomatis, CEO of Bluebotics Ltd., describes the three robotic actors, an obedient robot dog, a distinguished robot butler and a sensual female, in more detail.
Robots: Collective Coverage and Self-Assembly
Fri, 8 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT - MIT's Nikolaus Correll on his robot swarms for turbine inspection and his latest research on cooperating networks. In part two Roderich Gross introduces the swarm-bots and his work on robot cooperation, self-assembly and division of labour.
Robots: Giant Roaming Creatures
Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT - Theo Jansen describes his Strandbeest, giant walking creatures that can walk and sense their environments. We then talk to Jaimie Mantzel who is building a giant 6-legged robot on his mountain in Vermont.
Robots: The Race to the Moon
Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT - William "Red" Whittaker, director of the Field Robotics Center at Carnegie Mellon University, talks about his team's bid for the Google Lunar X Prize.
Robots: Learning with LEGO
Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT - In this episode we speak with Chris Rogers about the use of LEGO in educating young children in engineering, math and science. We then speak with Liz Herron on her experiences with children using LEGO MINDSTORMS robotic kits at the LEGO Education Centre.
Robots: The REEM-B and HUBO Humanoids
Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT - In this episode we speak with Davide Faconti, leader of the REEM project, one of the few European contenders in humanoid robotics. We then speak with Jun Ho Oh from South Korea who was the general chair of the last International Conference on Humanoid Robots for his snapshot view of the field as well as the HUBO humanoids developed in his lab.
Robots: Robot Ethics (Part 2)
Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:00:00 GMT - This second episode in a two-part series on Robot Ethics interviews Ronald Arkin, Regents' Professor and Associate Dean for Research at Georgia Tech University in the US. Topics include military robots, robots in the society, medical robots and legal responsibilities.
Robots: Robot Ethics (Part 1)
Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:00:00 GMT - This first episode in a two part series on Robot Ethics interviews Noel Sharkey, Professor of Public Engagement, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at the University of Sheffield in the UK. Topics include military robots, robots in the society, medical robots and legal responsibilities.
Robots: Human-Robot Love
Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:00:00 GMT - David Levy, author of the book "Love + Sex with Robots" and Kathleen Richardson who is a doctor of Robot Anthropology at Cambridge University discuss the future of human-robot relationships, both physical and emotional.
Robots: Industrial Robots in Research
Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:00:00 GMT - Raúl Ordóñez from the Motoman Robotics Lab talks about research in industrial robotics and how he hopes to use visual servoing as a feedback mechanism allowing robot arms to accomplish complex tasks such as juggling.
Robots: 2008 New Year's Special
Fri, 2 Jan 2009 07:00:00 GMT - We review the biggest events in robotics in 2008 and look to what 2009 has to offer with our panel of experts: Dan Kara from Robotics Trends, Terry Fong from the NASA Ames Research Center, Dario Floreano from the EPFL, Steve Rainwater from robots.net, and Minoru Asada from Osaka University.
Robots: Robot Toys
Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:00:00 GMT - Mark Tilden, passionate robot builder with WowWee Robotics, talks about designing robots for children, and what he thinks that scientists and researchers can learn from the toy industry.
Robots: Robot Musicians
Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:00:00 GMT - Gil Weinberg who is the Director of Music Technology at Georgia Tech, presents his wooden robot drummer Haile that is capable of playing with human teachers and even evolving its own beats to reach robotic improvisation. He also introduces his latest robot, Shimon the Marimba player. Our second guest, Atsuo Takanishi describes the Waseda Flutist, a robot that mimics human lungs, vocal chords, and lips to accurately play the flute.
Robots: Bio-inspired locomotion
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:00:00 GMT - Robert Full from UC Berkley presents his research on animal locomotion and how his insights have been inspiring engineers to create robots. Auke Ijspeert from the EPFL then shares some thoughts on bio-inspired locomotion.
Robots: Androids, Human Presence and the Uncanny Valley
Fri, 7 Nov 2008 07:00:00 GMT - Hiroshi Ishiguro from Osaka University introduces his androids, including the robotic replicate of his then 5 year old daughter, a female android modeled after the NHK news announcer Ayako Fujii and a copy of himself, the Geminoid. He explains Android Science and how his explorations of the uncanny valley may help to understand human presence. This episode then features the last quarter of Science Fiction author Jack Graham's "Selkies".
Robots: Jumping and Crawling in Millirobots
Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT - Sarah Bergbreiter from the University of Maryland gives us an overview of her work with robotic mobile sensor networks, walking and jumping micro-robots as well as fast prototyping of novel robots. Aaron Hoover at Berkeley talks about novel manufacturing techniques with smart composites. This episode then features the third part of Science Fiction author Jack Graham's "Selkies".
Robots: Warehouse Robots
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT - In this episode Raffaello D'Andrea of KIVA Systems describes how hundreds of autonomous robots can be used to automate warehouses. This episode then features the second part of Science Fiction author Jack Graham's "Selkies".
Robots: Swarming Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT - In this show we dive into the world of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) with Navinda Kottege from the Australian National University. In the second part Marc Sherman from Teledyne RD Instruments tells us more about AUV technology and the importance of Doppler Velocity Logs (DVLs) for underwater navigation. Finally we are treated to the first part of Science Fiction author Jack Graham's story "Selkies".
Robots: An Uncertain Revolution
Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT - In this episode we dive into the revolution brought on by the field of probabilistic robotics with Claudio Mattiussi. We then launch a most "uncertain" competition to see how good our listeners are at making probabilistic predictions to estimate the cleaning capabilities of a Roomba robot.
Robots: Bacteria-propelled microrobots
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT - This episode discusses bacteria-propelled micro robots and their potential for medical applications inside the human body. In the first part Metin Sitti explains how his robots can join forces with bacteria. In the second part gastroenterologist Mark Schattner discusses current uses and future potential from a medical perspective.
Robots: DelFly and Europe's Micro Air Vehicle Competition
Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT - In this episode we cover two major events in aerial robotics: the announcement of the DelFly Micro and the 2008 European Micro Air Vehicle (EMAV) Competition. We first speak with Christophe de Wagter, a member of the Dutch team that's been churning out amazing flapping-wing robots in the last few years. Our second interview features Peter Vörsmann, chair of this year's EMAV competition, to explain the latest advances in autonomous flying vehicles.
Robots: The Robot Blogosphere
Fri, 1 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT - This episode gives an insight into part of the online robotics community. We interview Steve Rainwater on his experience with robots.net, the first and probably largest robot community site online. Mikell Taylor shares her experience with the IEEE Spectrum Automaton blog and also gives us a quick insight into her current job at Bluefin Robotics.
Robots: Modular and Reconfigurable Robotics
Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT - This episode centers on modular robots. We interview Kasper Stoy on research in Modular Robotics. Robert Fitch gives an insight into Self-Reconfigurable Modular Robots.
Robots: Robot Soccer
Fri, 4 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT - Manuela Veloso, President-Elect of the International RoboCup Federation, gives a look behind the scenes of robot soccer.
Robots: A Robot Fly at Harvard and at the MoMA
Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT - This episode centers on the robotic fly, featuring interviews with professor Robert Wood at Harvard university and with Paola Antonelli, the curator of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Robots: Cornell Racing Team and Velodyne's LIDAR Sensor
Fri, 6 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT - Our inaugural episode centers on the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge, featuring interviews with professor Daniel Huttenlocher from Team Cornell and Rick Yoder from Velodyne, a producer of LIDAR sensors used by several teams in the challenge.
Robots: 23 May 2008, Trailer 1
Thu, 22 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT - Robots: Coming Soon! This is the trailer for the new Robots podcast, your source for news and views on robotics. Our inaugural episode will be released on 6 June 2008.

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QBO meets QBO
Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:52:18 +0000 - Those who have been following this project for a while know that it started 6 years ago. If something surprised and pleased me in equal measure, it was the controversy brought by our latest video in which Qbo recognizes itself in the mirror. It was not due to the publicity generated around the project, but [...]
QBO and the mirror. What if…(UPDATED)
Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:39:39 +0000 - A few days ago, I remembered when someone told me that only the human beings, the dolphins and some species of apes can recognize themselves in front of a mirror. Qbo has two independent nodes, one for face recognition and another for object recognition. Despite being obvious for everyone who works in Robotics what would [...]
Qbo’s Halloween
Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:25:32 +0000 -    
MicroSoft – Diary of a dream in Silicon Valley ( Day 5 )
Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:22:13 +0000 -     This has been one of the biggest surprises of the trip, for two reasons, one because I could enter in the future house of Microsoft by the hand of one of its funders, who is also a professor of the Stanford University, in which I could see the Microsoft’s vision of robotics.   [...]
Willow Garage – Diary of a dream in Silicon Valley ( Day 4 )
Sun, 16 Oct 2011 16:52:14 +0000 -     This is perhaps the strongest “dish” of the trip. As many may know Qbo works over a Linux-type operating system called OpenQbo, that consists in a modification made by our engineers of the Ubuntu distribution. Over OpenQbo, you can find a robotic software platform named ROS that is developed and maintain by the [...]
Google, Intel & Yahoo – Diary of a dream in Silicon Valley ( day 3 )
Sun, 16 Oct 2011 16:18:51 +0000 -   Before beginning this new post regarding the third day, I must comment some aspects that I find important and that weren’t present in my last post. If you decide to settle in Silicon Valley with all your team of engineers, you must know that it is possible that they end in another company soon [...]
RocketSpace – Diary of a dream in Silicon Valley ( Day 2 )
Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:26:01 +0000 - Today I started my real San Francisco trip. Our first visit was to a technology incubator center were teams and new projects consolidate their ideas with the help of professionals. Unlike other countries, in San Francisco, this type of incubators are managed by private companies and thus, it is difficult to access to one of [...]
Diary of a dream in Silicon Valley ( Trip & Day 1 )
Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:54:54 +0000 - Day 0 (Trip) For any lover of technology, speaking of Silicon Valley means speaking of opportunities, of dreams, of the mecca of technology and of big companies forged by disturbing minds in small garages. It’s been more than six years, curiously also in a garage, since I started this project more as a game than [...]
Qbo as a Telepresence System
Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:31:25 +0000 - What if you could go to the office without physically leaving your home or vice versa? Imagine yourself being able to connect to your Qbo robot from any part of the world, wherever it may be: your house, an office, a museum or anywhere else. Using your Android mobile phone, you can hear what the [...]
Qbo, a world of knowledge. Qbopedia
Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:16:16 +0000 - Here’s a new video where you can see, once again, a simple and natural interaction with Qbo in what may be a normal day in our lives. While nothing is asked to Qbo, he stays calm, observing the environment, searching for familiar faces and waiting for instructions (such as a general knowledge question shown in [...]

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74194 Stepper Motor Driver form Model Railroad & Misc. Electronics  More Electronics

Manage 5 stepper motors for the LPT signals step-dir Automatically Translated from Russian

OpenServo is an open community-based project started by Mike Thompson with the goal of creating a low-cost digital servo for robotics.

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Autonomous Quadrotor Helicopter - Aggressive Maneuvers
Mon, 31 May 2010 23:54:24 +0200 -

A very impressive demonstration of a small autonomous helicopter performing precise aggressive maneuvers - flips, flight through windows, and quadrotor perching.

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Towel-folding robot created by US researchers
Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:46:13 +0200 -

Watching a robot fold towels is surprisingly fascinating. Such a simple task for a human is actually very complex for a robot.

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Roomba Pac-Man
Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:45:11 +0100 -

An ingenious recreation of Pac-Man with Roombas - autonomous robot vacuum cleaners.

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Mind-controlled Robotic Hand which can Feel
Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:35:11 +0100 -

Scientists from Italy and Sweden developed a new artificial hand that can actually feel, as it is directly linked to the brain. The brain picks up the sensors in the hand, and the hand picks up signals from the brain.

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Smallest ever free-flying aircraft invented
Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:10:24 +0200 -

A short demonstration of a new flying robot aircraft which is the size of a small bird. It is capable of hanging in the air like an insect and can move in any direction.

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Robotic Hands move faster than the eyes can see
Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:05:39 +0200 -

These high-speed Japanese robots can do precise operations at a blisteringly fast speed.

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Einstein robot with realistic facial expressions
Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:49:56 +0200 -

A highly realistic Einstein robot developed at the University of California, San Diego. The robot can learn how to smile through self-guided learning.

Juan Enriquez: Tech evolution will eclipse the financial crisis (TEDTalks)
Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:48:56 +0200 -

A humorous, inspiring and eye-opening presentation about the financial crisis and the potential of technology to reboot the economy.

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Humanoid robot plays the Violin
Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:41:07 +0100 -

This 1.5 m. (5 foot) tall robot can play the violin thanks to its human like dexterity. It is one of a number of robots Toyota is developing to assist humans in Japan's greying society.

Mythbusters - Mona Lisa drawn in 80 milliseconds
Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:08:39 +0200 -

This video shows the difference between a CPU (robot) and a GPU by demonstrating their painting capacities.

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Rat-brain controlled robot
Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:21:50 +0200 -

Scientists at Reading University have created a robot that is controlled by living rat brain cells grown in a lab.

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Amphibious Robot Snake
Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:21:29 +0100 -

The ACM-R5 robot snake can glide through water elegantly. It was developed by the Hirose-Fukushima Robotics Lab in Japan.

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New Zealand's All Robot Music Band - The Trons
Sun, 29 Mar 2009 03:38:47 +0200 -

The Trons is a self-playing robot band consisting of four robots - two guitar players (one of whom also does the vocals), a keyboard player and a drummer.

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Big Dog - an ultra stable quadruped robot
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:05:11 +0200 -

BigDog is a dynamically stable robot using four legs for movement. This video demonstrates how it handles being kicked, balancing on slippery ice and overcoming obstacles.

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Self-organizing robots
Sun, 29 Mar 2009 01:01:43 +0100 -

Robots with a mind of their own are now being created which can physically join together and self-assemble to fulfill different functions.

Remote-controlled robot insects
Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:22:05 +0200 -

Not even the most sophisticated of today's robots come close to mimicking the flight aerobatics of insects. However, researchers have found a way around that: by programming and taking control of real insects.

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Tilted Twister - Robot Rubik's Cube Solver
Sun, 04 Jan 2009 12:49:13 +0100 -

An ingenious lego robot solves a Rubik's Cube in just a few minutes.

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Puppy vs Robot
Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:43:12 +0200 -

"When I brought home a Roboquad robot the other day and started playing with it, our resident guardian K9 was none too pleased.

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Robots inspired by Animals
Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:34:41 +0200 -

Robotics researchers are increasingly turning to nature for inspiration. Watch a robotic salamander, a water strider robot, mechanical cockroaches and some cool self-configuring robots.

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Robotic Fish
Sun, 29 Mar 2009 03:22:49 +0200 -

These robotic fish developed at Essex University look and move almost like the real thing.

Dinosaur Robots - Japan
Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:47:33 +0200 -

Two dinosaurs, the Tyrannosaurus rex and Parasaurolophus, have been brought to life by Japanese scientists.

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A Lego Mindstorms Car Factory
Sun, 29 Mar 2009 03:01:42 +0200 -

An amazing automated lego factory that produces little lego cars. A fascinating (albeit somewhat slow-paced) video that truly shows the power of lego.

Robot Asimo
Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:59:59 +0200 -

Walking and running humanoid robot which can carry and deliver items. It can run at a speed of up to of 6 km/h and slalom around obstacles.

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Cockroach Controlled Mobile Robot
Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:31:13 +0200 -

The "Cockroach Controlled Mobile Robot" is an experimental mechanism in which a live cockroach is the pilot. It stands on top of a trackball which has been modified to control a three-wheeled robot.

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Transformer Robot
Sun, 29 Mar 2009 01:44:12 +0100 -

A real transforming robot which can turn from a car into a humanoid-like robot. A larger scale version would have been even more amazing.

Dancing Robots by Sony
Sun, 29 Mar 2009 01:22:13 +0100 -

These smooth moving Sony robots have some impressive dance moves.

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Robotics and Other Gizmos Page - Robotics Activities and Links. Includes information, photos, and schematics for building a robots, a robotic computer interface, and other devices. Software is included.

AiboPet and other'Pets (robotic or otherwise)

TeRK. (Telepresence Robot Kit), Educational Robotics - Vehicles for Teaching and Learning.

Robots for Kids

Clockwork Robot create amazing paper engineering for you. Also create stereoscopic (3D) images for print or web publication 

OrionRobot Robotics resource and community website. There is a great deal of technical, creative and background information on robotics for hobbyists and even those more experienced. Some areas of the site also form a dictionary for some of the terms and concepts used in robotics, electronics, programming, Lego building and engineering.

Foxbox.Nl :: Lego Mindstorms Robots And Machines. A lot of Lego Mindstorms Robotics Projects.

EURON ( European Robotics Research Network). It is a community of people with a common interest in working to make better robots.

International Federation of Robotics

Robot Matrix This portal is all about robots/robotics. It delicates to all who are interested in the development of robotics - from beginners to professionals, manufacturers, suppliers, direct end users and even researchers. A comprehensive web portal on robotic technology. It contains both commercial and non-commercial information on robotic technology. More importantly, we always welcome useful user input, feedback or contributions in terms of publish useful articles on Robotics technologies in the portal. Humanoid Robots.

Telepresence Robotkit Educational Robots Vehiculs for teaching and learning.

Carl Kenner's Home Page. Programmable Input Emulator (GlovePIE or PIE). Control Games with Gestures, Speech, and Other Input Devices! With GlovePIE you can now play any game, or control any software or MIDI devices, using whatever controls you want. This includes joysticks, gamepads, mice, keyboards, MIDI input devices, HMDs, Wiimotes, trackers, and of course, Virtual Reality gloves!

Ted Larson (Balancing Robot and other links).

Trossen Robotics, your source for Hobby and Educational Robotics :-

Trossen Robotics Blog » Front Page News

The Trossen Robotics Blog is the place to keep up to date on all the latest product releases and news in robotics.

We are Hiring! Job Title: Roboticist Apprentice Extraordinaire
Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:35:41 +0000 - ATTENTION: We actually have filled this position. We will announce the new team member soon. However, we very much encourage people who wanted to apply to this position to still say hello. We will be continuing to bring on new people as we grow. We always welcome good talent sending in their resumes with a [...]
Maximum Security CaseMod
Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:03:48 +0000 - Our friend Will Lyon from over at thebestcasescenario.com is a master Computer Mod Designer. If you don’t believe me you can check out his latest project called Maximum Security. This badboy looks like he was yanked off the Nebuchadnezzar from the Matrix. The project sports a liquid cooling system, LCD readout, RedBee RFID reader and [...]
DSO Nano v2 Pocket Oscilloscope Price Slash – GONE!
Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:39:52 +0000 - We are making room for new stuff. We still have 8 of the V2 DSO Nano in stock. We’ve slashed the price on these wonderful pocket sized oscilloscopes. (Was 99.95 now 59.95) If you were wanting one of these for your workshop, now would be the time to grab one SOLD OUT!
New Phidgets!
Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:39:05 +0000 - Phidgets is just fun to say, Phidgets! Phidgets! Phidgets! The Phidget people of the Phidget company have made more Phidgets. Phidget Temperature Sensor IR How hot is your baby? The 1045 is an intelligent non-contact temperature sensor with a 10° field of view and a USB interface for easy connection to your computer. It measures [...]
Dynamixel Controllers Overview
Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:31:37 +0000 - Andrew discusses the different options available for controlling Dynamixel servos. Sexily. Here is where to find the Dynamixel Controllers. And here is where to find the Dynamixel Servos. That concludes this blog post. Cake will be served in the lunch room now.
4 New Products for your Workshop
Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:52:14 +0000 - Some more tools and goodies for your robot workshop! Don’t let you robot die in the middle of battle. This is a simple to use 3S LiPo Battery Alarm. It utilizes multi-color LEDs and an audio alarm to give visual and auditory feedback on the current voltage level of your LiPO battery pack. The Phidgets [...]

Surveyor Corporation Surveyor SRV-1 Wireless Mobile Robot with Video for Telepresence, Autonomous and Swarm Operation.

Middle Creek Merchants Robot Page

RoboCup is an international joint project to promote AI, robotics, and related field. It is an attempt to foster AI and intelligent robotics research by providing a standard problem where wide range of technologies can be integrated and examined. RoboCup chose to use soccer game as a central topic of research, aiming at innovations to be applied for socially significant problems and industries.

Robothon a national event that showcases the capabilities and technological developments in robotics from the amateur robotics community. At this event, people from around the world come together to present new robotic technologies, share ideas, meet fellow robotic enthusiasts, show off their robotic creations, and compete in many robotic competitions and activities.

Bryan's Robotics Journal Robotics without the soldering iron.

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Converting a Floppy Disk Drive into a Simple Robot   Generation5 aims to be the most comprehensive Artificial Intelligence site on the Internet. Community-orientated, Generation5 deals with all AI topics including robotics, neural networks, genetic algorithms, AI programming, home automation and much more.

Super Simple Beginners Robot!    
 

  Instructable for the absolute n00by robot wannabe. Noticed a huge jump in the number of beginners getting into the hobby and the number of "how do I" question...

Robots wanted Any condition, any type... ROBOTS WANTED: Dead or Alive, Whole or Parts, Please help the virtual robot museum grow! Some of the Robots that I am interested in: HeathKit (HERO JR, HERO 1, HERO 2000, Arm Trainer), Androbots (Topo, BOB, BOB/XA, Fred, and Androman), RB5X, Artec GEMINI, Omnibots, Rhino Robots, MAXX STEELE, NEWTON SynPet, Comro Tot, Marvin Mark I, RoPet, Servitron, ELAMI, CYBER I, HUBOT, Hearoid, Turtles, Etc. Also looking for Robot accesories and technical literature. Please don't throw that old Robot away! Robotic Gallery

Hobby Robotics. Hobby robot building plans, circuits, software and more... (More Blog Links)

Twin Cities Robotics Group A loose affiliation of people interested in robots, located in the Twin Cities Metro area, USA.

DIY Live Robots

STAMP Parallax. A BASIC Stamp microcontroller is a single-board computer that runs the Parallax PBASIC language interpreter in it's microcontroller. The developer's code is stored in an EEPROM, which can also be used for data storage. The PBASIC language has easy-to-use commands for basic I/O, like turning devices on or off, interfacing with sensors, etc. More advanced commands let the BASIC Stamp module interface with other integrated circuits, communicate with each other, and operate in networks. STAMP In Education

Wall-E project controlled by a BS2P40 stamp CPU and for motive power and two robosapienV2 hip motors.

Getting Started with an Accelerometer. (Forums Parallax Basic STAMP, electronic chips etc. Parallax) Acceleration is a measure of how quickly speed changes. Just as a speedometer is a meter that measures speed, an accelerometer is a meter that measures acceleration. You can use the ability to sense acceleration to measure a variety of things that are very useful to electronic and robotic projects and designs.   More Forum Links.

nBot Balancing Robot (Also has quite a number of Robot links). (Also has quite a number of Robot links).

Dallas Personal Robotics Group (DPRG)Robot Links   Low Cost Gyro-Accelerometer Combo Sensor In building a balancing robot you need a gyroscope unit and an accelerometer unit in order to get it to balance.

EI Robots Pathfinder

ElCheapo PICmicro Programmer

MELabs PICBASIC Compiler

CTG robotics Configurable Robotics allows the Designer to configure a robot by selecting from a wide range of interface boards and a variety of base designs to meet any task requirement. By using this configurable system the Designer can quickly assemble a robot and immediately start writing task software.

Ryan Dellanas Robotic Home Page

Autopilot: Do it yourself UAV (Helecopter)

Robot Builder

Building Robots with CoachLab II and Tech Card Materials.

Roborama Video's of robots It has never been easier to watch life-like robots video clips : Human, Animal, Toys, any robot!

Stephen Paul Linder. Student Projects.

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Seeing the Impossibly Small: 10 Wild Scientific Visualizations
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:00:00 EST - Every year, Science and the National Science Foundation team up to award prizes to visual works "that engage viewers by conveying the complex substance of science through art." PM talked to some of the artists and scientists that designed our fav


How Much Life Is Left in the Trans-Alaska Pipeline?
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:00:00 EST - The oil companies that run the Trans-Alaska Pipeline suggest that if oil flows drop too low, the line could be compromised.


The Race to Build a Real Star Trek Tricorder
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:30:00 EST - The X Prize Foundation has announced its next multimillion-dollar contest. The X Prize is asking scientists to envision and build the equivalent of Star Trek's medical tricorder, a device that can remotely diagnose any malady in patients.


PM Visits Mojave's Burgeoning Private Spaceport
Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:00:00 EST - At the Mojave Air and Space Port out in California, spacecraft builders like Scaled Composites, XCOR, and Masten Space Systems are hard at work testing the next-generation private vehicles. PM paid a visit to this hub of the private space industry.


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Next Up in Nuclear: Small Modular Reactors
Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:00:00 EST - The Obama administration’s next move in boosting energy techonlogy will be nearly $500 million in support of small modular reactors.


Brown Fat Revelations May Lead to New Weight Loss Drugs
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:32:00 EST - Scientists have found a new way to rev the body's metabolism: Activate its fat cells. Here's the science behind what may be the weight-loss breakthrough of the next decade.


5 Weird Planetary Systems
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:30:00 EST - It's confirmed: alien "Tatooine" planets orbiting double suns exist. But they might not be the strangest things in space. Here are five extraordinary planetary systems that could be out there.


Scientists are Starting to Read Your Mind
Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:00:00 EST - By taking strides toward understanding how the brain processing images, researchers are figuring out how to project a person's neural activity onto a TV screen.


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The Looming Threat of a Solar Superstorm
Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:00:00 EST - A radiation storm is pummeling the Earth, and experts warn this isn't the first warning shot sent by the Sun. the next one could immobilize modern technology, and civilization, altogether.


Solar Storm Will Slam Earth on Tuesday
Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:30:00 EST - A blast of charged particles from the sun is quickly approaching our planet, and the brunt will arrive on Tuesday morning. Here's what to know about these cosmic events.


Spotted: The Death Throes of a Sun-Grazing Comet
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:30:00 EST - This week scientists announced that they’d been able to see through the light to catch the final moments of a comet as it approached the sun, vaporized, and finally disintegrated.


Inside SpaceX: We Visit the Company's California Headquarters
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:30:00 EST - This year, SpaceX hopes to become the first company to send a privately built and owned spacecraft to dock with the International Space Station. And CEO Elon Musk is already thinking far beyond that. Recently, we paid a visit to his company's home base.


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Burt Rutan on Designing the World’s Largest Aircraft
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:30:00 EST - Burt Rutan is best known as the designer of the first privately built craft to send people into space, is now one of the driving forces behind an attempt to build the world's largest aircraft for Stratolaunch.


Is United Space Alliance About to Disappear?
Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:00:00 EST - For a decade and a half, Boeing and Lockheed Martin have been joined at the hip through United Space Alliance, the partnership that was responsible for launching the space shuttle.


Is the Universe Riddled With "Tatooine Planets?"
Fri, 13 Jan 2012 04:30:00 EST - Just months after the discovery of the first planet orbiting two stars, scientists have found two more such planets, hinting that the universe might hold millions of these strange systems.


Almost Nome: U.S. Icebreaker About to Reach Cut-Off Alaska Town
Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:40:00 EST - The people of Nome, Alaska, know well what it takes to survive the long, cold winter. But a confluence of bad weather and other circumstances has left them lacking the fuel needed to heat homes and power vehicles.


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6 Spider-Silk Superpowers
Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:30:00 EST - For years, scientists have been trying to tap into the power of spider silk, one of nature’s most amazing materials. Now, a research team may have invented a way to produce the stuff in large amounts.


What Levitating Fruit Flies Say About the Science of Weightlessness
Wed, 11 Jan 2012 03:00:00 EST - Using superconductors, scientists can levitate small creatures such as fruit flies for long periods of time.


Could the Northeast Store Its CO2 Right Beneath Its Feet?
Fri, 06 Jan 2012 03:42:00 EST - For years, researchers across the country have been investigating potential underground formations that could store CO2 trapped at power plants and keep it out of the atmosphere.


How Ants Create "Supersoldiers"—And Why More Species Don’t
Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:00:00 EST - Across a broad group of ants, just eight species were known to naturally create freakishly huge "supersoldiers" to defend the colony.


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Robot Room

i, Randy Robot Showcase.

Budget Robotics

URC Robots Universal Robot Controls & Automation (URC)

The Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics (LPR) is in the Computer Science Department at UMass, Amherst.

Lynx Motion intelligently designed, precision engineered robot kits and components. 

 

The Wooden menace - Robotic Arm.

This project is a robotic arm made mostly from Wood. It cost less than $50 to make and has a lot of the functionality that any normal robotic arm would have. It is controlled by a PIC MicroController and cloned PS1 controller.

RoboPUC is the name of the Branch of Robotics of the School of Engineering of the PUC. This is a group of professors and students, whose objectives are to harness the interest by the robotics by means of the development of projects, works altogether and aids for students. (Translated to English).

Robotic software development. The software for robotic controller is developed in collaboration with the CISAS of University of Padova. (Andrea Bulgarelli's Home Page)

RT Middleware Developed for Realizing Open Robot Architecture. For Creation of New Industry of Service Robotsx

Robot Gossip Blogspot  (More Blog Links)

Blog about Robots  (More Blog Links)

Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog Robots  (More Blog Links)

BRF Design

Sexy Robot" Used to describe Hajime Sorayama's renditions of the female robot forms which is covered with silver metal, first created in 1979. Initially, Sorayama had the idea to combine robots with eroticism to create the "Sexy Robots". Those are now becoming reality through the work of technicians in robotics labs all over the world. Human female looking robots are called Gynoids (also Fembots) as opposed to Androids which are based on the human male characteristics. This site features all kinds of life-like robots and not only "Sexy Robots". :-)

Environmental Robots Inc. The Home of Ionic Polymer Metal Composites (IPMCs) and Polymeric Nanocomposites.

Robot Books  Robot Links

 

PaPeRo Robots

Introduce Themselves. ITU Telecom World 2006, Hong Kong. NEC is showing their robot PaPeRo. In the video, PaPeRo tell us its name in Japanese, English, Chinese (Putonghua), German and French; afterwards they dance together. Watch the video.

Phoenix Area Robotics eXperimenters

Seattle Robotics Society

The Robotics Laboratory. (Department of Mechanical Engineering).  University of Maryland. Affiliated with Center for Automation Research is the Robotics Laboratory of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, which is directed by Prof. Jackson C.S. Yang. It was established in 1983, with primary activities in education, research and industrial interaction.

  MIT Tech TV (Video's).
 The video-sharing site for the MIT community. It supports community through the aggregation and distribution of science, engineering,
MIT's Robotic Life Research group   Techtv (Video's) Upload yours.  More Videos to Watch and Video Publishing

UC Berkeley Robotics and Intelligent Machines Lab

Robots, Robotics And Automation for Talking Electronics

Robostrider The study of live water striders led us to attempt the construction of a mechanical water strider "Robostrider". The challenge was to build a device capable of self propulsion light enough to be supported by surface tension. At the scale where surface tension is important, the weight of a handmade water strider increases with complexity; therefore it was important to develop a very simple driving mechanism.

Micromechanical Flying Insect (MFI) Project

ii Robotics

The ME2011 Robot Project is a chance for students in ME2011 Introduction to Engineering to be creative, to face a substantial challenge, to show off, and to stretch themselves as designers.

Software Verification and Validation Plan (SVVP) for the Robot Development Project (RDP). The goal of the project is to deliver a software package capable of controlling the ASEA Irb6 robot at the faculty of Electrical Engineering of Eindhoven University of Technology. The project and the documents to be delivered are organised according to the ESA Software Engineering Standards [ESA]). The project's verification and validation activities are described this SVVP, it also contains plans for testing the software.

Field And Space Robotics Laboratory Microbots project studies a new mission concept for planetary exploration, based on the deployment of a large number of small spherical mobile robots (microbots) over vast areas of a planet's surface and subsurface, including structures such as caves and near-surface crevasses.     Massachusetts Institute Of Technology

Microrobotics and Millirobotics Research. Micromechanical Flying Insect (MFI) Project.

Biomimetic Millisystem Lab harness features of animal manipulation, locomotion, sensing, actuation, mechanics, dynamics, and control strategies to radically improve millirobot capabilities. Research in the lab ranges from fundamental understanding of mechanical principles to novel fabrication techniques to system integration of autonomous millirobots.

Autonomous Jumping Microrobots

Precise Miniature Robots and Desktop Flexible Production

Robotics Online

Society of Robots (Includes The $50 Robot Tutorial)  Also Experimental Robot Platform (ERP)

Neuromechanics of Multifunctionality during Rejection is a multidisciplinary graduate program at Case Western Reserve University. Neuro-mechanical systems include natural, man-made, or hybrid systems combining neural controllers and mechanical peripheries. Examples include natural organisms, biologically inspired robots, and neuroprostheses for restoring motor function in the disabled.

Biologically Inspired Robotics Lab dedicated to the advancement of the field of robotics using insights gained through the study of biological mechanisms.

The Robot Scientist Project A multidisciplinary research project involving expertise from Computer Science and Microbiology,

Boulette's Robotics page

Thinkl33t Robotics

Robotics Research Topics. Roadmap of AIM Lab Robot Development.

Robot Enthusiasts! Firmly Founded. And Proudly Growing with over 4,000 members from across the globe.

The Robotics Research Laboratory is part of the Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems (CRES) at USC.   Robot Movies

Physical computing. It's an approach to learning how humans communicate through computers that starts by considering how humans express themselves physically.

Techgeek Building a Robotic Community.

Jeff's All Things Robot, (plenty of links)    Jeff Robots

From Bits to Bytes to Bots

Machine Brain Robots and Smart Machines.

X Robots Robots for all occasions.

Learn about robotics

Hackaday Rrobots Hacks

Build a working robot   Boys Life

The Robot Hall of Fame recognizes excellence in robotics technology worldwide and honors the fictional and real robots that have inspired and made breakthrough accomplishments in robotics. The Robot Hall of Fame was created by Carnegie Mellon University in April 2003 to call attention to the increasing contributions from robots to human society

Robotics Connection

Robot Lab

Pololu, your source for robot kits, robot parts, and robot electronics.

PETMAN Prototype   Biped robot the balances dynamically

Using a human-like "Heal to Toe Walking" motion.

It is a close relative to BigDog sharing elements of the mechanical design and control.

Vivid Videos Demonstrate SuperBot Progress.  SuperBot Robot Can Construct Itself

Types of RobotsSome Ways to Use Robots.  (NASA)

Robotics Jet Propulsion Laboratory Mobility and Robotic Systems. NASA

Portland Area Robotics Society An Oregon non-profit formed to help those interested in learning about and building robots.

Robotics and Automation Laboratory at the University of Western Australia, Perth.

Open University Robotics Outreach Group

Robotics Online

Robot Magazine, Bot Mag

Red Rover Goes to Mars

Dallas Personal Robotics Group

Machine Intelligence Group, India

MegaGiant Robotics

Space Daily Robots

Beagle 2 - A UK robot lander on Mars

Robot Space Explorers - An educators and enthusiasts guide

5 Strange Japanese Robots  Hacked Gadgets

SuperDroid Robots provide a wide range of robot kits.

Robotics Engineering program at WPI

The Robot Store

Roboworld

HRIWeb: The Human-Robot Interaction Site

Hardware Guides, BIOS, Drivers, DLL files and Peripherals

Programming Languages and Computer Code and Scripting

How Robots work. How Stuff Works

Swarmanoid, the movie    
 

Swarmanoid is a heterogeneous robot swarm in which different groups of robots have different capabilities: some robots are specialized in manipulating objects and climbing, some in moving on the ground and transporting objects, and some in flying and observing the environment from above.

This video presents the Swarmanoid project, a 4 year research project coordinated by Marco Dorigo and funded by the Commission of the European Union.

ARGoS' official web site Computer simulation is a fundamental tool to aid the development and study of robotic systems.

Existing simulation packages for multi-robot systems do not provide the flexibility, scalability, and computational efficiency necessary to deal with the challenges posed by the Swarmanoid project.

Therefore, we have designed and implemented the ARGoS, a novel continuous-time simulator for general multi-robot simulation that includes full support for the simulation of the three different types of robots-- eye-bots, hand-bots and foot-bots--composing the swarmanoid.b ARGoS was the official simulator of the Swarmanoid project and is currently the main robot simulation tool in the ASCENS project.

ARGoS' is the result of the joint effort of all the partner labs involved. Carlo Pinciroli and his colleagues from the IRIDIA-ULB lab were responsible for the main design and development of the architecture, while the other labs (IDSIA-SUPSI, LIS-EPFL, LARAL-ISTC) contributed with new plug-ins and bug fixes.

ARGoS' official web site Computer simulation is a fundamental tool to aid the development and study of robotic systems.

Existing simulation packages for multi-robot systems do not provide the flexibility, scalability, and computational efficiency necessary to deal with the challenges posed by the Swarmanoid project.

Therefore, we have designed and implemented the ARGoS, a novel continuous-time simulator for general multi-robot simulation that includes full support for the simulation of the three different types of robots-- eye-bots, hand-bots and foot-bots--composing the swarmanoid.b ARGoS was the official simulator of the Swarmanoid project and is currently the main robot simulation tool in the ASCENS project.

ARGoS' is the result of the joint effort of all the partner labs involved. Carlo Pinciroli and his colleagues from the IRIDIA-ULB lab were responsible for the main design and development of the architecture, while the other labs (IDSIA-SUPSI, LIS-EPFL, LARAL-ISTC) contributed with new plug-ins and bug fixes.

AREXX Engineering manufacture and distribute a wide range of electronic products for hobby, professional and educational use.

Science Tech Robot links.

Future-Bots Robotic parts and systems and Vintage and New hard-to-find items including Integrated Circuits, CPU's, Memory, Linear Devices, Transistors, and more.

The ROVer Ranch An interactive, Web-based robotics workshop for assembling the hardware and instructions for a software robot to perform a mission in a virtual environment.    Robot Activity Links.    Other Robot Links.

Robot.org.uk This site is a guide for robot builders. There are lists of robotics books, magazines, CD-ROMs, kits, component suppliers, information sources and events.

Epanorama Robotics Links  Epanorama web site, which is dedicated to offer information on electronics found from the web. Lot's or electronic, computer and other related links.

Robot Power

Zach's Cool Stuff. Where people come to expand their knowledge of electronics, robotics, and technology through hands-on projects (i.e., Building Cool Stuff).

Cool Robots at Dartmouth College Scalable, Solar-Powered, autonomous science platforms from the Antarctic.

Smart Robots  Open Robot Network (ORN) members are improving and expanding upon the protocols, languages, applications, and technologies of the SR4 that support robot-to-robot and robot-to-person communication over the Internet.

The Robot Group was founded in the Spring of 1989 by a small group of Austin, TX artists and engineers who shared a common vision: utilizing technology to provide and explore new mediums for art.

Team Stupid Robots is dedicated to providing and supporting economical motor and motion control solutions for a wide variety industrial, research, hobby, and military/police applications.  Robot Links

VMRP wall climbing robot able to climb walls

Tech-supplies The online shop for all your PICAXE, electronic, robotic and educational technology projects.

The Robix Rascal Classroom Robot Set

Popular Mechanics Robotics

Robots Rule PC Robots Forum/Robot Forums - Community Robots Forums. This forum is dedicated to the discussion of PC controlled robots, androids, robotics, and robot hobbyists.

A Robot Club Forum Index  More Forums

RoboteQ Embedded System and Motor Control Specialists.

Robot Marketplace

Stepper Motor using the original floppy disk drive for IBM-PCs. (Quite a number of other similar links)

Robot store UK

IFI Robotics The Art of Science and Control

Rogue Robotics

Micro Dones GmbH. Development of robotic aerial vehicles. Production of rotary wing based VTOL MAV's. (VTOL = Vertical Take Off and Landing, MAV = Micro Aerial Vehicle).

The Robotics Institute   Robot Programming Code. Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University.

  Globalspec Engineering Search Engine

Botball Store All proceeds from the Botball Store go to support educational robotics programs.

AVR and Robotics A collection of robot electronics information.

Mike's Electric Stuff High Voltage, Valves and other electrical stuff.  Which is better, PIC or AVR ? Let's have a heated debate....

Robot-Crawler 6 legs servo Atmel controller  Atmel Website

Larry Barello's AVR and Robotics

Mark III Robot Store

Neil's Hardware using Macxeno Items

Beyond Logic

Interfacing Discussion Group Archives

Make a Marker-Writing Robot out of an Old Inket printer and an iRobot Create

Micromagic Systems® Supply animatronic, robotic and puppet control systems and services to the film and television industry. Most recent projects include "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" and "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban".

Silicon Chip Australia's electronics magazine, and is primarily directed to professionals, trades people and enthusiasts in the electronics, electrical, computer and related fields.

Stop the construction of Killer Robots It has been claimed that mass assembling an army of giant KILLER ROBOTS to destroy the world that we live. Sign a Petition to help stop this.

Engineering TV, an innovative online video program by engineers for engineers. Twice a week, each 5-8 minute episode shows cutting-edge technology in action and looks behind the scenes as today's engineers shape tomorrow's breakthroughs. Brought to you by the Penton Media Design and Electronics Engineering groups.

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Fighting Robots (Some may be listed under other sections)   Any mechanical device could be dangerous take all safely precaution's.

Japanese Two Legged Fighting Robots RoboGames humanoid smack-down

RoboGames 2008 Watching the humanoid battles.

A Technical Guide To Building Fighting Robots

The Fighting Robot Association

Extreme Fighting Machines

Robot Wars

Robot Combat

Robot Solutions LLC A source for high quality PMDC motor controls and accessories. We have motor controllers for all types of motors and Battlebots.

Battlebots

RealTimeBattle is a programming game, in which robots controlled by programs are fighting each other. The goal is to destroy the enemies, using the radar to examine the environment and the cannon to shoot.

Cool Robots (My Robot can beat up your Robot)

Farrell Robotics Humanoid Fighting Robots   f10dx5 Farrell Robotics YouTube Channel    
 

The Farrell Robotics Humanoids which will be competing at the 2007 RoboGames can be previewed here.

For a higher resolution video please go to Farrell Robotics Humanoids

 

Robot Pro Wrestling 10 - Main Event   Tempusmaster, Robot Dreams YouTube Channel    
 

Robots Dreams

The Main Event at Dekinnoka 10!

Robot Pro Wrestling featured Saaga versus Monster.

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Other Links (Some may be listed under other sections)    Any mechanical device could be dangerous take all safely precaution's.

3D Printer MakeBot and 3D Printing MakeBot  also see 3D Printers. Three dimensional printers. Printing Physical Objects. Making things by printing them out. Fast prototype, fast prototyping

Robot Operating System, (ROS), provides libraries and tools to help software developers create robot applications. It provides hardware abstraction, device drivers, libraries, visualizers, message-passing, package management, and more. Other Computer Operating System. ROS is a community effort, with many institutions contributing to its development. Much of the underlying platform is being developed by Willow Garage and Stanford. If you wish to find out about Willow Garage's role in developing ROS.

Willow Garage develops hardware and open source software for personal robotics applications.

Bug Labs buildable electronics at CES 2009 (I/O attachment, could may be used for control of robotics). Watch all the video :)

The Microsoft Robotics Studio is a Windows-based environment for academic, hobbyist and commercial developers to easily create robotics applications across a wide variety of hardware.

The Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio (Microsoft RDS) is a Windows-based environment for academic, hobbyist, and commercial developers to easily create robotics applications across a wide variety of hardware. Microsoft RDS includes a lightweight asynchronous services-oriented runtime, a set of visual authoring and simulation tools, as well as templates, tutorials, and sample code to help you get started.  More Microsoft® Links

PC Robots Forum/Robot Forums  More Forums

Roboanimals in the lab From the automata of the ancient Greeks, to the curious mechanical inventions of the Age of Enlightenment, people have been creating robotic renderings of animals for centuries. It was only recently, however, that technology advanced enough to produce sophisticated robots that biologists can use for studying animal behavior. By mimicking specific behaviors with striking realism, these robots can stand in for (and fool) their living counterparts -- thus offering researchers the one thing that's often lacking in experimental setups that use live animals: control. "Having these robots allows animal behaviorists to try to tease apart the components of complex signals that are important for the individuals and for interactions between individuals," says Purdue University ecologist Esteban Fernández-Juricic, who has constructed robotic birds. Here are robot animals in action that help Fernandez-Juricic and other researchers learn more about animal behavior.

Artificial Muscle Research Initiative. Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering. College of Engineering, University of Maine. UMaine, Biomedical Engineering Initiative

The Artificial Muscle Research Institute (AMRI) and The Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (FSH) Society. Grassroots network of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) patients, their families and research activists. The FSH Society harnesses the power and insight of a patient-driven model, as it was founded on a promise between two research scientists with FSHD never to let the disease be forgotten or neglected. We are a cause without borders

Open Hardware Licenses Open (source) hardware is a licensing agreement for electromechanical projects. That is to say, electronics and robotics and other mechanical projects are open hardware if they are documented and published under an open hardware license.

Control. Global online community of automation professionals.

Robotic Hand Prototype 3D Print     ArmJunkie YouTube Channel    
 

3D print from model see created Thingiverse

This is still in beta. I spotted a lot of design errors and will have to do some redesign work to fix them. The end goal is to have this hand frame controlled by a sensor glove.

The work continues at Embeddedjunkie

Thingiverse This is a place to share digital designs that can be made into real, physical objects. Let's create a better universe, together!

 

More 3D Printers Make practable things in 3D by printing them at home

 

MORP or Module Orientated Robotic Programming is a small framework designed to bring base implementations in order to easily connect modules such as a NXT or Bioloid Robot. It provides its own scripting languages called 'morp' dedicated to robot programming.  More Programming Languages

RoSH, (Restriction of Hazardous Substances), also known as Lead-Free. RoHS Directive 2002/95/EC restricts the use of six hazardous materials found in electrical and electronic products. All applicable products in the EU market after July 1, 2006 must pass RoHS compliance. RoHS impacts the entire electronics industry.

WEEE, (Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment). WEEE Directive 2002/96/EC mandates the treatment, recovery and recycling of electric and electronic equipment (90% ends up in landfills). All applicable products in the EU market after August 13, 2006 must pass WEEE compliance and carry the "Wheelie Bin" sticker.

Nanobots, NanoRobots, Nanotechnolgy. Dangers of Nanotechnology. Is Nanotechnology dangerous?

Electronics, Electronic components and Electronics Circuits.

3D Printers. Three dimensional printers. Printing Physical Objects. Making things by printing them out. Fast prototype, fast prototyping

Computer Numerically Controlled, CNC

Hardware Guides, BIOS, Drivers, DLL files and Peripherals

RFID, Radio Frequency ID, Radio Frequency IDentification

Operating Systems and Graphical User Interfaces. Windows Visa/XP, Linux, Apple, BeOS, etc.

Mill Engine. Engineering and Mechanical Portal.  Engineering links, Mechanical links, engineers, machines, engines. Civil Engineering,  architecture, construction, transportation, etc...

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